Over
the course of this quarter, I wrote six blog posts. These blog posts were about
young women moving from rural areas to metropolitan cities, Japan’s failed
effort to bring in more immigrant workers with a new type of working visa,
school bullying cases, traditional Japanese cuisine’s loss of chefs, Netflix’s investment
in Japanese anime, and black school rules. I joined the class late, so I didn’t
write a blog post for the second class, but I also read an article about
Japanese idol group AKB48 their “date” concert tickets.
Almost
all the stories that I read, with the exception of the Netflix story, shed a
negative light on Japan. Three of the stories were related to demographics
problems, about a lack of young workers available to carry on the work of past
generations, but these stories were not that impactful to me personally. The story
about the school bullying cases was the most impactful, since this kind of
negligence by teachers resulting in student suicides could be something found
in any part of the world, not just Japan. I think that this story is the most tragic,
because it results in deaths.
Before
coming to Japan, thanks to anime and manga, I had a positive view of the
country. I knew about the stressful work environments and black companies, and
I knew about Japan’s shady war history in China and Korea. But I still thought
that I might want to work in the country. Now, I still think that Japan
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