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In Japan almost half of unmarried people under the age of 34 are virgins.
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Like actual virgins.
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In fact, the vast majority aren’t in any kind of relationship
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and it's actually a huge problem.
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The population is in decline.
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The number of kids that were born hit record lows.
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In fact, it's such an aging population that the number of adult diapers is about to outsell babies diapers.
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So, the lack of sex in Japan has been blamed on a whole bunch of things
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porn, anime, robots.
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Of course it's always robots.
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But what if sex itself isn't the main issue here.
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What if it's just the symptom of a much bigger problem?
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Oda Ayame is 25, she's got a good corporate job and today she’s on a hunt.
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A little bit for handbags...
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but mostly for a husband.
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She’s getting ready to go to a kind of speed dating event.
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Dating is big business in Japan.
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The government is spending millions dollars to help people like Oda find a partner.
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There are taxpayer funded dating services
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and a booming industry of spouse hunting events called Konkatsu.
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Where applicants can sometimes even be screened on looks and earnings.
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And then there's this...
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This is an all singing, all dancing, all pouting instructional video
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for women looking to attract a keeper.
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It shows you sexiest joints to expose.
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What grade stockings to wear.
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And even the most mathematically attractive angle to tilt your head.
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Still, the women do generally get into these events at no cost.
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Do you think it's fair?
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Oda is looking for a serious man.
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Someone who's real marriage material.
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And somehow I question whether bringing a random Australian along as a wing man is going to help
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but, here goes.
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Where do the serious men live?
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Are you telling me you won’t find a serious man playing with a plastic toy at the bar?
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And so why would you have, essentially a child’s toy at a dating venue?
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Oh, drinking game.
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Sorry I’m just keeping up my end of the bargain.
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I'm gonna step out. You guys keep enjoying yourselves.
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Food is on the way.
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So the deal is that girls get in for free and the guys pay about 1000-500 Yen per 30 minutes.
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So that's, I don't somewhere between 15 and 18 Australian dollars.
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Per 30 minutes.
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However you get this complete self service bar.
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Which is not at all a recipe for binge drinking.
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The best part is this thing.
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Watch this.
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Who needs bartenders?
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Of course. Need an extra hand.
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It's a magical place.
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Magical, expensive place.
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While Oda had a good time
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no luck this evening.
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60% of young Japanese women, are tonight single
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and 70% of young men.
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Ayame remains one of millions of people, tonight sleeping alone.
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Today we’re having lunch at Nadeshico Sushi.
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Which is Japan’s first and only sushi restaurant completely run by women
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In fact, this woman
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Yuki Chizui.
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Take me back to 2010 when you started this place, cause understand it was reaction to the recession.
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Nadeshico Sushi is a reference to the "ideal Japanese female".
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Lady of tradition,
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of feminine grace and domesticity.
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And despite being a pioneer,
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a business owner and just insanely talented at making amazing looking and tasting sushi.
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31 year old Yuki, also cannot get a date.
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Several high profile male chefs or 'itamae'
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have argued that women are incapable of making sushi because their hands are too warm
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or their menstrual cycle ruins their sense of smell and taste.
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When you hear somebody say that women can't be sushi makers because their hands are too warm,
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what goes through your head ?
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Why is it that Japanese men can't deal with an independent woman,
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that can have her own opinions about the world?
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Yuki is talking about is Tokyo’s Maid Cafes girls in the Aki-habara district
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where she’s runs her restaurant.
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Inspired by manga and anime, the girls dress up like these cartoon characters
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and are paid to fawn over customers.
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For what it's worth it seems Yuki is also not that thrilled with the idea of Konkatsu parties
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and the pressure they put on women to dress and act a certain way.
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A soft toy instead of an actual person.
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Japan is famed for it's kink culture.
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There's a multi-billion dollar industry of
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hostess bars, fetish clubs, masturbation clubs, love hotels and yes sex shops
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and yet virginity is on the rise.
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The numbers of people who’ve never had sex with someone else
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have been growing for the past twenty years.
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And at the top of this building is a woman that has been tackling this problem,
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very hands on.
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Online she's known as Queen Love
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Ai Aoyama is a kind of sex therapist.
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Oh, wow.
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Tokyo Tower.
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Oh my goodness, it's amazing.
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Aoyama sees men mostly in their 20s and 30s
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and it's largely about getting them comfortable with bodies.
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Theirs...
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and others.
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How do they react when you hug them?
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There's a lot of men and women that are entering their 30s in this country
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without having any sexual experience.
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The population is dropping, the amount of young people getting into relationships is dropping
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it's becoming quite a serious problem.
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Are you worried about the future of your country?
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Didn't expect that as an answer.
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In a previous life, Aoyama was a dominatrix.
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Her clients were largely stressed-out salarymen who were being yelled at in the office.
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But they liked being her slave.
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So you could see the stress that their work-life had on them
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what do you think that tells you about Japan's working culture?
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Is Queen Love right?
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Is the key to solving Japanese sex about fixing how Japan works?
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Taiyo Hashimoto is known in Japan as a salaryman.
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He's 26, upwardly mobile, ambitious and he would love a date.
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But, work comes first.
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Japan is world famous for its work ethic.
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And the pressure to perform is high.
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Taiyo says you don't leave work before the boss.
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And if the boss wants to go out for a drink, you do too.
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But for many of these salarymen, it's not just about the drinking.
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Shimbashi in Tokyo is one of the top Salaryman after hours hangouts.
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The food is cheap and the drinks are plentiful.
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We are in the hub of Salaryman drinking culture right now
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and the reason there's so many people behind me is because
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the last train is about to leave and it's just coming up on midnight.
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And there's a lot of drunk people around.
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But before that last train goes, I’m curious to find out what these men, and it is mostly men
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think of the women in their lives or the lack thereof.
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Women’s participation in the Japan's workforce hit an all time high last year.
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The Government’s so called ‘womenomics’
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is pushing for more ladies to top up the country’s shrinking workforce.
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The thing is this culture of overwork has been here for decades
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but at that time permanent workers who were working very long hours
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they were offered promotions and they were offered high salaries.
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But right now there’s no prospect of them having kids or having a family
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because their salaries are not just going to go up.
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And among the young more than 50 percent are becoming temporary workers.
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So they don’t know what they are going to be doing a month from now.
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So the environment of working conditions is completely changing right now.
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POSSE is a Labour union for young people.
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They run a hotline on workplace issues
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and for eight years now Makoto has been taking calls.
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Are you getting more calls than you used to or is it improving?
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It’s not improving.
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Probably this year we're going to get more than maybe 5,000.
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When people call up what sort of things are you hearing what are the biggest complaints?
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So we get a lot of calls complaining about overwork
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we have another issue of so-called black companies.
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What they are doing is treating workers as disposable,
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so they're hiring 200 people in one year and 200 quit in one year.
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and they are hiring 200 other people.
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How many people are out there actually fighting and taking on these companies?
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There aren’t very many.
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It’s very difficult for anybody in Japan to stand up for your rights.
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But not everyone goes quietly.
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Workplace bullying and unpaid overtime forced one beauty therapist to fight back against her employer.
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We are just out here waiting for Miki Tanaka who has oragnised a protest against this company
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and it turns our in Japan you have to go up and notify the company before you actually do the protest.
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So she'll be out here in a second.
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-Hi. -Hello.
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I'm Marc.
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I'm Miki.
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How was your meeting? Hi.
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Hi, nice to meet you.
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How was the conversation upstairs?
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It was intense so we asked them to bring their CEO out
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they said that the CEO is not here nor anyone in charge.
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Right.
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So it’s a weekday and saying the person in charge is not there is very weird.
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Miki found herself working each night till 10:30, without the adequate breaks.
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What's the sort of mental strain of doing those kinds of hours?
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You just cannot think straight about anything, all you are doing is like working like a robot.
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I understand at a certain point you had panic attacks.
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Yes.
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For somebody that's never experienced a panic attack before, what does that feel like?
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Horrible.
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I could not work. The moment I saw my manager's face I just started breaking down
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and I just could not work.
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I started shivering, shaking...
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Miki says when she finally worked up the courage to quit, her manager didn’t lodge her resignation.
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She was trapped.
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To be honest, I kind of felt like giving up with my life.
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But when I was going through it, my mum was in Japan and she just asked me to quit the job.
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You don't need to to die for the company is what she is saying.
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But that’s just the thing, all across Japan, people are dying for the company.
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Last financial year, 190 people officially died or attempted suicide from overwork.
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In fact, Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the developed world.
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Higher than the U.S, higher than the U.K and yes higher than Australia.
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Jiro Ito is a psychiatrist.
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He runs a not-for-profit the works to prevent suicides among young people.
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By catching those who search the internet for how to die before they go through with it.
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When Jiro started this organisation in 2013,
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the phrase ‘I want to die’ was being searched 130,000 times a month.
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Now, it’s almost double that.
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This is Dentsu, it is Japan's biggest advertising agency
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and three years ago one of their employees took her own life.
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Her name was Matsuri Takahashi and she was 24 years old
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and in the months leading up to her death she was clocking around 100 hours
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of extra overtime a month.
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Now when the courts ruled they said she literally died of overwork.
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And in Japan they have a word for that, it's called 'karoshi'.
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Now Dentsu was fined ¥500,000 which in Australian dollars amounts to
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about six grand, but the crucial thing is this,
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not one manager, no one was held accountable for her death.
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It took just 8 months for Matsuri to go from this bright university graduate,
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to ending it all on the 4th floor of a company dormitory.
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How does that happen?
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What could possibly have driven her to that place?
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Well Matsuri may be gone, but she did leave us some clues.
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Two hours outside of Tokyo is Susono.
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This is where Matsuri Takahashi grew up.
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We now know Matsuri was working up to 7 days and at it’s worst on just ten hours sleep a week.
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Her division at Dentsu was halved and the workload doubled.
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And in the midst of it she tweeted.
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I understand that Matsuri left you a message.
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What did it say?
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Does the pain of losing a child get easier?
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When I heard the news of Takahashi-san
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I thought will it happen again?
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That was the third time karoshi happened at that company, Dentsu.
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The head of Dentsu stepped down, there was a token fine.
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What would have been a sufficient punishment for Dentsu do you think?
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Well that’s a difficult question because punishing Dentsu is not going to solve this problem.
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This is not just a Dentsu problem, this is a problem which is happening in every single workplace
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Matsuri Takahashi’s death in 2015 refocused Japan’s attention on karoshi.
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In June this year the government set a legal limit on the amount of overtime staff can work
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to 100 hours extra a month.
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But that is 20 hours more than what the government also say
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will put you at risk of karoshi.
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It's just ridiculous, the government is saying you have a chance to die
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but you can work till this limit.
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And there is no law that the company has to follow on keeping the actual number of hours
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that a worker works.
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So they can just forge timesheets.
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They can just not record anything.
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Why do you think the laws that they put in place were so open to interpretation
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and possible abuse?
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A lot of companies and business agencies donating huge amounts
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of money to the Government and the ruling party.
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The Japanese Government have dedicated millions to try and get more people dating and marrying.
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But what if the answer to the problem in Japan's bedrooms
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can only be solved in Japan's boardrooms?
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Tomorrow Taiyo will still want to climb that corporate ladder
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while others like Yuki will seek to rewrite the rules of Japanese society.
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Why is it important for you to stand here and talk about this?
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