Japan, a country where the "Grim Reaper" lingers and never wants to return.
With the explosion of words such as "Buddhism", "lying flat", and "rotten", there are a group of young people who eat and wait for death in Chinese society, but when it comes to lying flat or the most powerful in Japan, the high mortality rate is evidence.
Why is this social phenomenon occurring in Japan? Will China be the second Japan in the future?
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A young man who lives like a zombie
When it comes to young people, the first thing that comes to mind is the future of the country, the existence of a society full of vitality and vitality, but in Japan, on the contrary, these positive words have nothing to do with them, and they only have pessimism and negativity.
On a Japanese reality show, a guest's sloppy life resonated with many Japanese people, because it is a microcosm of the lives of the vast majority of young people in Japan.
This guest is in his twenties and thirties, has no girlfriend, lives alone all year round, plays games at home every day without going to work, takes out when he is hungry, drinks water with Coke, plays games when he is not thirsty or hungry, and never goes out.
I don't clean up my beard all day long, I don't pay attention to my image at all, I live like this life day after day, I have no thoughts, I only eat, drink and play, I haven't been happy, and I have a proper "loss".
This is just one of the young people in Japan, and there are thousands of young people like him, who can no longer lie flat all day long, and are obviously living people. but lives a "zombie" life.
But he wasn't like that, so why is he so decadent now?
Behind the life of the "zombies".
This guest was also full of hope and longing for the future when he went to college, but after graduating from college, he was hit by the cruel reality and could not stand up, and the main culprit of this phenomenon was economic problems.
According to some data, the annual unemployment rate in Japan is not high, only 3.7%, which is not worth mentioning compared to China, and it is also easy to find a job in Japan, unlike China, where college graduates are unemployed.
Japanese people are happy in comparison, so why is this happening?
It turns out that although Japan is good for employment, but the salary is low, most of the jobs are below 100,000 yen, which is equivalent to no more than 5,000 yuan.
The price of goods in Japan is ridiculously expensive, you have to buy fruits by the piece, you have to look at your wallet to buy vegetables, and you can satisfy your hunger by eating meat, a pound of meat is dozens of dollars, a monthly salary is less than 5,000, food, clothing, housing and transportation cost money, and you can only ensure food and clothing in a month.
There are also young people who have thought about working hard, and it will be good after a few years of suffering, but the reality is often the most cruel, since the outbreak of the Asian economic crisis, Japan's economy has been in a stage of stagnation, so that many young people in Japan do not see hope, how can they continue to work hard.
Moreover, the exchange rate of the yen continues to fall.
According to reports, on June 28 this year, it was found on the screen of a Japanese foreign exchange trading company that 170,000 yen to nearly 180,000 yen was converted into less than 8,000 yuan, which is too cheap.
Wages are already low and prices are high, and now that the yen continues to depreciate, young people in Japan have no hope.
A middle-aged man who is bent on killing himself
Young people in Japan are unhappy because they can't find a good job and are under financial pressure, but most middle-aged people in Japan still have good jobs and their wages are still okay, so why do they still want to die?
It turned out to be a "magical" system for Japanese companies, and if this system is in China, it is definitely a "god" existence, that is, a lifetime employment system with enterprises.
To put it bluntly, employees can take the initiative to resign, but enterprises cannot take the initiative to dismiss, that is to say, no matter what the employee does, as long as he does not resign, he has always been an employee of this enterprise.
But in Japan, this is the last straw that crushes young people, although wages and jobs are okay, but the price of goods in Japan is too expensive, no matter how much money you have, there will always be a day when you run out, and the economic stagnation will bring more or less pressure to young people.
If that's all there is to it, it's okay, but it's bad because of the lifetime employment system.
The company will not take the initiative to dismiss people, then there will definitely be a lot of people to apply, after a long time you will find that the company has too many people, "sheng" can not go, for the sake of high wages employees are unwilling to resign, but the company is certainly not willing.
People who can't provide better and higher value to the company, the company will definitely try their best to drive people away, since they can't take the initiative to dismiss, then let the employees take the initiative to resign, and let the employees take the initiative to resign, then the company will have to do something.
At the beginning, it was to persuade employees to resign, and everything would be fine if they resigned, and if they did not resign, they would change positions, reduce wages, and force people to resign voluntarily.
It is understood that more than 20,000 people will die by suicide in 2022 alone, of which middle-aged people account for more than 50%.
Drinking alcohol buys drunk and waits for the elderly to die
Japan's aging population is very serious, and as of 2023, the number of elderly people in Japan has reached more than 29% of the total population, and providing for the elderly has become the biggest difficulty in Japan.
The way Japan has chosen is to raise the retirement age and drastically reduce pensions.
These elderly people have survived the life of young people like the walking dead, and overcome the negative life of middle-aged people with dead hearts, and finally ushered in retirement to live a long life, only to be told that the retirement age will be raised, and the pension will be greatly reduced, which makes them full of gloom about their dying lives.
So in this context, some elderly people choose to commit suicide, and the other part relies on alcohol to numb themselves, and then wait for death to come.
It was on a new railway line in Japan that a 71-year-old man committed suicide by pouring a flammable liquid on his body and then ending his life, most likely suffering from depression.
Originally, it was a scene of living in old age and full of children and grandchildren, but it was forced to be alone, neglected by children, and ignored by society, and death may be relief for them.
Will China become a second Japan?
The answer is definitely no.
Although many young people in China also yearn for a life of "lying flat and rotten", only a certain degree of relaxation, not death, the sharp increase in suicide rate in Japan is related to its own social system and people's health.
The gloomy society has caused them to have physical problems and dark thoughts psychologically, so there is such a phenomenon, but China is the opposite, it will not close the young and middle-aged to a dead end, let alone "force the elderly to death".
Rotten is a kind of wisdom, and those who can really swing rotten will realize their dreams and succeed through rottenness, while the Japanese people can't see the hope of life, and live helplessly.