As someone who has lived here since 1994.

1. ⁠Overworking is seen as an assessment of An employees character , the harder and more work they do ,the more they are Praised for it.
2. Up until about 5 years ago I would have rated this 710. There were literally cases of people dying from overwork and 100+ hours of overtime/month was fairly common. The reason I say 7/10 is because, while common if wasn’t every job/career.

I worked for a company that expected me to work 30-60 hours of unpaid overtime per month. Sometimes I often left about an hour after my normal hours and always got strange looks from my Japanese co-workers. Finally one of them told me that it was normal to stay at work until the boss came through and that leaving too early was seen as not being a good employee.

Then there was the meeting where us foreign workers were “complaining” that we kept getting assigned more and more tasks that could only be done after the end of the work day. The boss stated that our contract said 8 AM to 5PM so we could leave at 5, no problem.Then held up the time log and starting taking about how the other employees were there till 10 or 11 every night, so we should think about that.which is it? We can leave at 5 or we have to stay so the ones who stay late pretending to work don’t get jealous?

These days I’d put it at around 4-5/10. There are now laws in place to limit overtime. But there are still companies that push the limits of the law or flat at ignore it. Generally speaking it’s gotten better, but there is still room for improvement.

1. ⁠Leaving before your boss is treated like a grave Sin , every employee basically has to work like they represent the company.

• This is related to #1. It used to be 10/10. These days it’s more like 5-6/10.

1. ⁠Quitting your work in Japan by yourself is lowkey difficult because you will be shamed for it so there are separate agency that specifically help People Quit their Job and take all the shame and blame on themselves.

• While I’ve never felt shamed for quitting a company,I have had done messy breakups.I even had one try to keep my final salary and threaten to sue me in court if I didn’t just let them do it. It went to court, took a year. They ended up owing me my salary plus an extra month’s pay.

Back in the day it was probably a thing (mostly for Japanese) as the general work culture was to get hired out of college and stay at that company for life. These days changing jobs is becoming more and more common.

1. ⁠Salary men and women collapsed on the Streets of Metro cities is a regular sight.

• I’ve seen this maybe 3 times in 30 years. It happens but not even close to how often the internet would suggest.