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https://www.mhlw.go.jp/shushoku_hyogaki_shien/

Japan’s Labor Crisis: The Rise of Gen Z & The Lost Generation’s Struggles 🇯🇵📉

Japan is facing an unprecedented demographic crisis—with record-low birth rates and an aging population, companies are struggling to hire young workers. There simply aren’t enough Gen Z graduates to fill the growing labor shortage.

This documentary explores Japan’s economic decline and the intense competition for young workers that is reshaping the job market. To attract Gen Z talent, companies are raising salaries at record rates, offering better work-life balance, and improving working conditions. For the first time in decades, young workers in Japan have the power to choose their ideal job—a stark contrast to past generations.

But while Gen Z enjoys high pay and abundant opportunities, Japan’s Lost Generation—those who graduated after the early ‘90s economic crash—continue to struggle. Many suffered from stagnant wages, unstable jobs, and underemployment, with little chance for career growth. As Gen Z thrives in today’s hot labor market, many in the Lost Generation feel frustrated at the stark contrast in opportunities.

🔹 Why is Japan’s workforce shrinking?
🔹 How are companies adapting to the labor shortage?
🔹 Why do Gen Z workers have so many job choices?
🔹 What happened to the Lost Generation, and why are they struggling?

This in-depth documentary uncovers the winners and losers of Japan’s labor crisis and the unfair divide between generations. Don’t miss this eye-opening look into Japan’s shifting job market.

Key words: working in Japan, work life balance in Japan, work culture in Japan, working conditions in Japan, labor market in Japan, jobs in Japan, finding a job in Japan, Japanese job market, generational gaps in Japan, the lost generation, employment ice age in Japan, gen z and gen x in Japan, salaries in Japan, wages in Japan, low birth rates, labor force, labor shortage in Japan, hiring in Japan

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48 Comments

  5. @gintasasd on

    Japan wants to fix shit thry made 40 years ago yeah…… sorry but even if you give 300k yen first pay in Tokyo and if you got family( low chance for young person) that ain't much plus if the work culture is the same with company being first then family then even less kids be born

  10. @Urufu-san on

    While startups in Berlin have hammocks and free Matcha Late, Japanese companies offer beer bars on site and time off for hangovers 🙈😂 you couldn’t make this stuff up

  13. @rokmare on

    Im suprised that Japan isnt doing what other countries are doing paying more for older generation to stay at their job while avoid hiring gen z at all cost 😂

  17. @inthesparklingsky on

    Well if the perks are having a sweets corner in the office, having the freedom to dress how you want, having the opportunity to get drunk and ruin your health all you want at night.. well, good luck with that! Hahaha!

  19. @stoneform on

    Japan has been on the losing end of globalization over the last few decades thanks to countries in the Asian region taking advantage of free market policies and buckling to external pressure and liberalizing critical policies. They need to find a more moderate path and work more for their own people

  20. @shizzler7176 on

    Productivity in Japan is unreal bad, most jobs are spend 60 hours at work to do 30 hours of work, that could be done in 15 hours or less at home under modern processes. The best part is there were intensely competitive academic tracks to get this job all of which focused on rote memorization of skills that no one ever uses again past the age of 18.
    This was fine for a time because the West was even worse but now the competition is hungry Chinese 996ers that also aren't dumb plus elite educated US tech firms. The only way they can even stay in business is by paying shit wages and pivoting towards the second world through crushing the yen with too-low rates which they justify via fake inflation numbers.

  21. @npcimknot958 on

    These perks sound unsustainable.

    What you need is to increase salary lol thats it. What you’re actually going to do is make people entitled and you will 100% have the issue peopel are having in the west… it will backfire hard.

    You need to increase pay thast it.

  22. @npcimknot958 on

    Ther eis no labour shortage.. its there are more people not applying or refusing jobs that pay below a livable wage..

    Just ike kin America.. etc.. the pay is too low to even pay for rent.

    If they raised the wage 3 times.. you would have line ups for blocks.. the problem is, thse companies do NOT want to pay.. it’s exploitation but wanting to repaint it.. so you add perks.. vs you could actually pay people a good amount

  23. @fiifiitropics on

    Seems like Japan is the opposite of the US in so many metrics. Housing cheap and plentiful. Over abundance of jobs. Lowest crime rates. I’m packing my bags and coming back to my motherland😛

  24. @williamong911 on

    No work for the young = no future. Simple as that. The "Ice age" generation should shut the hell up, they are the one who refuses to birth children for the future.

  27. @sor3999 on

    8:00 This is said of the millennial and gen x generations in America as well since the 2000 Dot Com Crash and especially the 2008 housing crash left a low demand for workers so their career trajectory has been stunted earning less than their older peers at the same age due to 1) a late start due to not finding work 2) starting with a lower salary and fewer increases. If you suffered irregular work you are biased against as unreliable when in reality it was the employment market that was unreliable. This also contributes to lower pay in later years.

  34. @Tmidiman on

    This is going to cause prices to rise as property and other consumer goods try to get a deeper piece of that pie.

    That's going to make it harder on those not getting the raises/increased pay. I hope Japan can manage it properly.

    Now lowering the need for university grads is the right direction. You don't need a university degree to drive a bus.

  41. @grumblekin on

    Because companies get 720000 yen per person for hiring foreigners from the government.

    There’s no real pressure to increase wages when companies can just port in Chinese or Vietnamese who work for less, get welfare subsidies, and won’t complain about poor conditions. It’s the office jobs that require native Japanese that are having trouble….yet they won’t rise wages .

  47. @benzmf5439 on

    you need at least make ¥400k a month as a single to live comfortably in japan. some companies in japan still pay them ¥250k and some even lower. and yes, salary need to change!