The 2-Belo wrote:
> 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.

Oh, yeah. I remember that story from your blog. Pretty frightening.

And I agree with your point about the necessity of taking control of 
one's own life, BTW. I've been meaning to do that some day soon, if only 
I can make room in my busy work schedule....

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