Frustrated Youth of Japan

choi

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Martin Fackler, Japan Blocks the Young, Stifling the Future. New York Times, Jan 28, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/asia/28generation.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=horie&st=cse

Quote:

Kenichi Horie "moved to Taiwan two years ago to study Chinese. 'Japanese companies are wasting the young generations to protect older workers,' said Mr. Horie, now 36. 'In Japan, they closed the doors on me. In Taiwan, they tell me I have a perfect résumé.'

"Japan’s news media are now filled with grim accounts of how university seniors face a second “ice age” in the job market, with just 56.7 percent receiving job offers before graduation as of October 2010 — an all-time low.


Note:
(a) Shigeyuki JO/ The Truth of Generational Inequalities
高橋 亮平, 小黒 一正 and 城 繁幸, 世代間格差ってなんだ; 若者はなぜ損をするのか?  PHP (2010)

(i) 格差 【かくさ】 (n): "qualitative difference; disparity"
(ii) なんだ 《何だ》 (int): "What!     「そっか。暇なら掃除しといて。」「なんだそれ。兄貴をアゴで使うなよ。」 'Oh? If you're free get the cleaning done.' 'What's up with that? Don't order your brother around!'"

(b) Manabu SHIMASAWA/ Akita University  島澤　諭/ 秋田大学
http://homepage3.nifty.com/~~shimasawa/myself.htm
(c) Yuki HONDA/ University of Tokyo 本田 由紀
http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/professor.php?id=428
(d) For Welfare Ministry, see Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 厚生労働省
(f) For Trade Ministry, see Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) 経済産業省
(g) Yuichiro ITAKURA  板倉 雄一郎
http://www.yuichiro-itakura.com/
(h) Takafumi HORIE 堀江 貴文
(i) comeuppance (n; come up + -ance): "a deserved rebuke or penalty"  www.m-w.com
(j) Noritoshi FURUICHI 古市 憲寿
(k) Ryohei TAKAHASHI/ city council member of City of Ichikawa  高橋 亮平/ 市川市議
http://www.ryohey.net/

Youth Manifesto 若者マニフェスト
(l) freeter フリーター

* Freeter Union - フリーター全般労働組合   Part-timer, Arbeiter, Freeter & Foreign Worker . . .
http://freeter-union.org/union/
* My guess: a freeter in Japan is equivalent to a freelancer in US.
* The "arbeiter" is German for "worker" (a male noun)--female noun being arbeiterin.


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choi

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The reporter, Mr Fackler, did not compare Japan with US.

A few things in his report apply to America, too. So I thought when I read it.

Today, there is an article that substantiates my suspicions.

Charles M Blow, Hard-Knock (Hardly Acknowledged Life); The poor poor, nary a mention by the president. New York Times, Jan 29, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/opinion/29blow.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=hard-knock&st=cse

My comment:
(a) Just take a look at the table. There is no need to read the article.
(b) hard-knock (adj): "beset with hardship"
Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
(c) Everywhere in the world, young people tend not to vote. Naturally government policies favor older people, especially retirees--because the latter vote faithfully (in part becaus they have time).
(d) Social security in US is going to be bankrupt. But no politician dare come out to talk about it, let alone fix it--for no formula is popular to everybody.


【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: Martin Fackler, Japan Blocks the Young, Stifling the Future. New York Times, Jan 28, 2011.
: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/asia/28generation.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=horie&st=cse
: Quote:
: Kenichi Horie "moved to Taiwan two years ago to study Chinese. 'Japanese companies are wasting the y
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