When you think of Japan, you seem to think of Japan's fairly developed customs industry.
It is understood that one-third of single women in Japan will choose to engage in this industry, just because of the compulsion of life.
Japan's Abema News recorded a record of a woman engaged in the customs industry based on a "Tokyo Poor Girl" news follow-up report.
Customs industry practitioners are self-statements of women
Moe is a single woman in the customs industry who is 23 years old this year.
Walking on the street, dressed up and clean, I can't see any embarrassment of life.
During the day she works at the company, and after work, she goes to the nightclub, basically until the early hours of the morning.
Before entering the nightclub, she did a lot of work, trying to become a regular employee in every job. However, it always backfired, and each time I did not become a regular employee.
The salary of the probationary employee is 120,000 yen, which is equivalent to about 6,300 yuan.
Looking at this number, it is quite a lot, and it seems that it is enough to live in China.
However, in Japan, a land-poor country, the rent costs 75,000 yen, which accounts for more than half of the income.
This does not include fixed income such as utilities, transportation, and communications.
Roughly calculated, the disposable income is only 1,000 yen per day, and it is not enough to eat in Japan.
Moe always pushes it off for various reasons every time he encounters a colleague gathering, which can save a fortune.
If a colleague asks for coffee, Moe generally won't go, because a cup of coffee costs 500 yen.
Sometimes, in order to save money, even rely on "hungry meals" to reduce the cost of expenditure. Most of the clothes needed for daily life are also found from second-hand websites.
Despite the fact that life has been like this, she still tries to live.
The advent of the epidemic has made the original life more difficult, and even going to work every day has to worry about whether it will be laid off.
In Japan's 2020 employer data, it is clear that women have been hit by the epidemic far more severely than men.
Due to a number of factors, Moe had to choose to enter the customs industry, because only this industry is not short of people all year round, although the price is very low.
Moe chose to go to work at a nightclub after five o'clock. In order to reduce the cost of transportation, she wanted to change to a relatively close house, but the cost of moving made Moe difficult again.
In order to be able to save on the cost of moving, she worked hard. Work in nightclubs three times a week, each time until two in the morning.
The salary of two jobs is barely enough to make ends meet.
Moe also said that he never thought that one day he could live a luxurious life, and it was already good to live.
Moe is a true microcosm of many single women in Japan, who do not want to engage in the customs industry, but have to bow their heads in order to live.
According to Japanese media statistics, about one-third of informal single women in Tokyo, Japan, are forced into the industry.
Strangely enough, in Japanese society, women always seem to have a lower status than men, although they are all clamoring for equality between men and women.
Single women under the epidemic are more likely to be laid off, just because they are not married and have no corresponding responsibilities.
It is not so much that many single women in Japan are forced to engage in customs and customs industries, but rather that it is a kind of tilting of the entire Japanese society.
Japanese customs and culture
Behind this kind of Japanese society's many women engaged in the customs industry is a combination of culture and market demand.
In Japanese culture, from the end of the shogunate to the beginning of the Meiji period, some custom women were exported as goods in Japan, and this act did not end until after the end of World War I.
At that time, the impact of the war, many Japanese women in order to make a living left their hometown, north to Siberia, Shanghai, south to Southeast Asia, more bizarrely, India, Africa have the footprints of Japanese custom women.
Later, the war ended. Although prohibited by Japanese law, there are still gray areas. Even the development of the customs industry is more vigorous than before, and the annual output value of the customs industry is among the best in many industries.
The reason why many women in Japan are engaged in the customs industry is actually just to survive.
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