{"id":1151,"date":"2008-03-19T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T18:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/do-many-japanese-suffer-from-chronic-fatigue.html"},"modified":"2008-03-19T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T18:14:52","slug":"do-many-japanese-suffer-from-chronic-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Do many Japanese suffer from chronic fatigue?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I had a meeting at a very large Japanese company. Part of the meeting took place in Japanese so I had a chance to observe the faces of the people who I was meeting with more detail as I could not understand what they said. In so doing I could notice tremendous signs of fatigue. And this was not only true of this meeting but of many meetings that I attended. Especially with executives of large companies. Doing some more research on this I learned about the famous last trains of Tokyo, which run around 1130 and how packed they are. This means that many people stay at the office from 9am to 11pm. And then they commute for over an hour on the average. Now what I can\u00b4t understand is how come in Europe we work so much less and yet enjoy a similar standard of living.<\/p>\n

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Today I had a meeting at a very large Japanese company. Part of the meeting took place in Japanese so I had a chance to observe the faces of the people who I was meeting with more detail as I could not understand what they said. In so doing I could notice tremendous signs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t