Japan is, as ever, complicated. On paper, there are strong labor protections, even salaried employees need to be paid hourly overtime and the concept of "oncal

Japan is, as ever, complicated. On paper, there are strong labor protections, even salaried employees need to be paid hourly overtime and the concept of "oncall" is foreign to labor law: either you're fully on the clock or not. In reality, many of these regulations are cheerfully ignored and unpaid overtime is quite common, but there is wide variance between companies.