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I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
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I really doubt many people in Japan commute by car.
They’re one of the biggest importers of natural gas. Something has to run the Shinkansen.
I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
That's seems a quite naive/brash take. Isn't it the case that Japanese work culture, "stay until the boss leaves", is what contributed substantially to loneliness in Japan? A lack of work-life balance? It seems to me that remote work could lessen this effect greatly. Also, you seem to be assuming it will just lead to people working from home alone. Japanese housing is notoriously small, and cafes ever-popular, it doe…
I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
I’ve never been there, but everything I hear about Japanese office culture sounds terrible: long hours, stodgy environment, forced participation in dangerous binge drinking. That said, pretty much everything else about Japanese culture seems awesome.
In the UK we just voluntarily participate in dangerous binge drinking
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In Southern Europe NTT is mostly a bodyshop. Their target demographic is junior engineers willing to do unpaid overtime for abysmal pay. Pretty sure remote work doesn't make a big difference.
If you’re doing a lot of extra hours, not having to commute and getting some peace makes a huge difference in making it sustainable.
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They’re one of the biggest importers of natural gas. Something has to run the Shinkansen.
Shinkansens run on electricity. Oil is mostly in the manufacturing and plastics industry, unlike other countries where domestic consumption is a significant share. (Tokyo power sector is mostly thermal and nuclear.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan
EDIT: these numbers appear to be old, since 2019 they’ve tuned reactors back on and stopped relying on LNG as much. I can’t find good numbers on recent data but in 2019 they imported more gas than any other country.
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They’re one of the biggest importers of natural gas. Something has to run the Shinkansen.
Shinkansen is electric. Japan total energy mix is about 20% LNG or so.
I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
That's seems a quite naive/brash take. Isn't it the case that Japanese work culture, "stay until the boss leaves", is what contributed substantially to loneliness in Japan? A lack of work-life balance? It seems to me that remote work could lessen this effect greatly. Also, you seem to be assuming it will just lead to people working from home alone. Japanese housing is notoriously small, and cafes ever-popular, it doe…
I keep hearing this thrown around, and I have no reason not to believe it, as on paper it makes sense.
But have there actually been studies around this?
I’m sure that’ll help the already high levels of chronic loneliness in Japan…
Clearly office work doesn’t help with this. Perhaps the flexibility and the removal of the need for things like capsule hotels will help. Maybe towns outside of the large megacities will see a renaissance ad people under 65 will be living there.