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Speaker 1: This is the Fits in Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: We talk about the work ethic of the Japanese. This

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Speaker 1: is unbelievable, Like it's okay.

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Speaker 2: This is a story on a Japanese worker by the

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Speaker 2: name of Yuki what an Arby.

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Speaker 1: I love Yuki. What a legend because.

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Speaker 2: Yuki, of course, Yuki used to spend twelve hours every

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Speaker 2: day toiling away in the office, and that's considered a

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Speaker 2: short day, right, a typical nine to nine work days.

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Speaker 2: The minimum that they have to do. The latest that

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Speaker 2: I would leave the office would be eleven pm. What

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Speaker 2: she works for Japan's largest telecom and e payment companies.

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Speaker 2: One of those companies's only twenty four years of age.

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Speaker 1: So intense with.

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Speaker 2: The demands that what an Arby had to endure that

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Speaker 2: she has used an alias to do this interview okay

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Speaker 2: for CNN for fear of jeopardizing future job prospects.

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Speaker 1: Because this is the thing.

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Speaker 2: If you can play about it, you know you're not

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Speaker 2: getting ideos over in Japan. You can't have time off, Kate.

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Speaker 2: You're hard to get any holidays and you have to work.

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Speaker 2: You can't say can I go home early for the

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Speaker 2: kids this night? Because they just knock your back.

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Speaker 1: Well, how do you have time to have children? Well?

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Speaker 1: This this is the thing. When do you ever see

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Speaker 1: your children? How do you make the children if you're not.

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Speaker 3: A dying hard work is an interesting topic when you

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Speaker 3: talk about the Japanese, to me, words like seamless, polite, beautiful, food, accurate, respectful.

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Speaker 3: I think they're a great culture.

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Speaker 1: I've never been to.

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Speaker 3: A huge fan. Went to once, didn't we.

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Speaker 1: Tom, Yeah, it was wonderful. You go to Tokyo together?

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Speaker 1: Did you go skiing? No?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we went skiing, but we also went to was

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Speaker 3: that shopping that are crossing? Yes, that's the main crossing there.

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Speaker 3: We went to.

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Speaker 1: There's a really big went to.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you got that out. Yes, now we

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Speaker 2: can understand.

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Speaker 3: Souku is like the trend new shopping place in the world.

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Speaker 3: But unfortunately, when you rolled in with a couple of

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Speaker 3: x's in front of an l your size, it is

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Speaker 3: hard to find any theory. I bought a hat, that's it,

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Speaker 3: the only thing that fitted me.

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Speaker 1: How did that? And you've got a huge head, Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I just on their culture as well.

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Speaker 2: I went to the Fuji Rock Festival and they give

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Speaker 2: each other space like half a meter, so you could walk.

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Speaker 1: When mus were on I remember were right up the back.

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Speaker 2: You could walk all the way through the crowd to

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Speaker 2: the front because they give each other space.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of every song, they all just

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Speaker 1: they all just clap. Amazing, Masha, I found a floor.

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Speaker 1: I have to push through and spill your drink.

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Speaker 3: I found a floor in the culture. Pardon the pun,

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Speaker 3: is when you sit on the ground to eat quite often.

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Speaker 3: I was struggling to get up. It was like a

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Speaker 3: turtle on my back. I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: I've eaten so much. I can't I can't get off this.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to sit on the floor.

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Speaker 3: Quite often you do with the Japanese restaurants.

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Speaker 1: You sit on the floor. It's polite too, just with

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Speaker 1: their work.

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Speaker 2: What's even trickier for them is tendering their resignations. If

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Speaker 2: they want to leave, companies refuse. We're not taking your resignation.

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Speaker 2: So this is what this story is all about. Is

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Speaker 2: that now these okay, So this is companies have started

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Speaker 2: up that tender the resignation for you. So there's one

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Speaker 2: that's called memori. Now Memori means I can't do this

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Speaker 2: anymore in Japanese. You go to them, you pay them

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Speaker 2: twenty two thousand yen, which is around about one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty dollars, and they go in and they tender

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Speaker 2: your resigune.

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Speaker 1: Now, these companies have become so.

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Speaker 2: Popular because this is the only way people can get

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Speaker 2: out of their.

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Speaker 1: Jobs, so it's legally binding.

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Speaker 3: You can be paid in Pokemon cards over there as well, and.

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Speaker 2: This is the thing that a lot of there's death

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Speaker 2: by overwork in Japan.

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Speaker 1: At the imagine dying at your desk.

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Speaker 3: But they have really strong numbers of blue zones in Japan,

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Speaker 3: and that's where they have a large population of citizens

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Speaker 3: that are over the age of one hundred years old.

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Speaker 3: So blue zones are popular in Japan and they look

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Speaker 3: at their food. But also it's because they respect their elderly,

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Speaker 3: and the elderly are always part of the community, so

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Speaker 3: they are often working at that late stage of their life,

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Speaker 3: but they're all so crucial to the family.

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Speaker 1: It's just so contradictory though.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd love to know what's the retirement age Tommy

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Speaker 2: three twenty, I think, But see a thirty one year

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Speaker 2: old political reporter suffered heart failure because she.

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Speaker 1: Spent long hours on the job.

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Speaker 3: How old was she?

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Speaker 1: She worked one.

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Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty nine hours of overtime in the month

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Speaker 2: before her death.

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Speaker 3: Oh God, I don't want to do that. Imagine your

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Speaker 3: eyes looking at the computer all day, or you your

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Speaker 3: neck pain that had one of those bouncy balls.

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Speaker 1: It says here she worked at Channel seven.

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Speaker 3: Well that's what I asked, Susan. She'd moved over here

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Speaker 3: for the job opportunity. Unfortunately, there was a bit of overpaid,

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Speaker 3: underpaid overtime.

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