Japanese dread the "F-word"

[Taro Toporific]

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Japan Times / Sunday, July 12, 2003 (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030713a1.htm)
Naze hatarakunoka (Why Do We Work?)"... In a country known for its citizens who live to work (rather than the other way round)... something is afoot in the collective psyche of the Japanese -- something... that could certainly be described as a state of flux in its view of work....many people wondering just what their working future holds, and facing the need for an f-word they thought would never apply to them: flexibility.
Forced to rethink...

[Crispy]

Good article. Talking to Japanese college students when I was over there, they seemed maybe unrealistically optimistic about getting flexible jobs that would enable them to do the things they wanted. I guess we'll see. Meanwhile, back in the US, I am still unemployed.

[Big Booger]

Japanese companies will need to embrace the flexible nature of young thinkers and workers or else face a peril greater than the bursting of the bubble economy 10 years ago.
:D

[Crispy]

Like ther GDP change being negative until they look like Afghanistan?

Something has gotta give sooner or later. Bloody revolution, anyone?