We sadly announce the death of Scott Reynolds on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:01:02 +0900
after being stricken by fj.life.in-japan Disease. The will states:

>The 2-Belo wrote:
>> We sadly announce the death of Scott Reynolds on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:44:55 +0900
>> after being stricken by fj.life.in-japan Disease. The will states:
>> 
>>> The 2-Belo wrote:
>>>> We sadly announce the death of cn72554@gmail.com on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:36:46
>>>> -0800 (PST) after being stricken by fj.life.in-japan Disease. The will states:
>>>>
>>>>> Why don't people go insane and rebel against the system??
>>>> Yes, I suppose they can go get some automatic weapons and shoot everybody like
>>>> they do in the United States where everything is perfect.
>>> Why do you assume his standard for comparison is the US? 
>> 
>> Well, because it's the only standard of comparison that I know anything about,
>> and even that is rather tenuous (since I never worked for a company there full
>> time).
>> 
>>> Judging from the English mistakes in his post I assumed he was not an American.
>> 
>> Whatever nationality he may be, he's welcome to go to that country if he doesn't
>> think this one suits him. Work sucks everywhere.
>
>The job conditions he describes did sound pretty bad, frankly.

They did. And I've experienced similar. But I tend to stop short of blaming the
entire country for it, because the field in which I work (IT) almost guarantees
long hours and sacrifices such as this, not only in Japan.

Not that I'm defending the cultural reasons behind it, but I think one *always*
has control over his or her life and should act if they think they are headed in
the wrong direction. I did that in 2002 to escape virtual enslavement in the
rural Philippines at the hands of a very large Japanese corporation, and it
likely saved my sanity.


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