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Working Life in Japan (History (Our Focus : Post WW2 to present, 1950s:…

- - - - What role does self-orientalism play?
- - - - Part-time | Full-time dilemma:
        • Labour participation of women is on the rise, up from 46.2% in 2012 to 49.1% in 2017.
        • However, this number is misleading and accounts for many women pushed into part time work, and doesn't illustrate the severe lack of women in higher managerial and leadership positions.
        • Shinzo Abe aimed for women fill 30% of leadership positions by 2020. In 2017 only 4% of managerial positions were held by women, up from 1% in 2012.
        • 2014 Goldman Sachs report claimed that the lack of women in full-time work is partially due to tax distortions which discourage married women from participating fully in the work-place.
      - Working Mothers:
        • Push for Government to deregulate day care sectors, and provide better support and provisions, and put in place structures to make sure that women don't have to reduce working hours or quit their job in order to be mothers as well.
        • Also need to equalize roles of men and women at home, women carrying most of the stress and work-load in their own homes.
- - - - reveals specificity in the Japanese working approach, and flaws in how workers are treated?
      - Tied up in Japanese ideas of work etiquette
        
        ETIQUETTE AND THE JAPANESE WORKING SPIRIT
        
        "saving face" : not showing emotion
        
        authoritarian,
        
        will never leave before boss
        
        communal
        
        "faithful samurai warrior"
        
        deeply hierarchical
        
        legacy of feudalism
        
        business cards
        
        attention to detail / craft
        
        technology
        
        obligation to repay favours etc ,loyal and upstanding
        
        strong feelings of responsibility to their company/co-workers
      - after crisis in 1997 : disrupted tradition employment systems, work loads increased for those still employed during and immediately after crisis. New fear seeing how things could go wrong => push to work even harder
  - - - role of self-orientalism, wanting to push forward "unique" qualities of japanese culture after being influenced by american occupation and fear of dissolving an authentic japanese identity. Along side the west eroticising/encouraging an inferior "other" dialogue
- - - - Can these exaggerated and often false stereotypes be due to misinterpretation? --> Honne vs. Tatemae
      - Can this be rooted in distrust/racism against the Japanese during the war time period? (e.g. Dr Seuss racist comics)