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Scientist most popular job among Japanese boys for 1st time in 15 years

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A renewed interest in science, engineering, and scholarship is great news for Japan. Wish this was the same in my country of birth, the U.S.

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Its nice and everything, but if you have more chances of ending a professional athlete than landing a successful job as a scientist the situation does not improve that much.

I mean, Japan have much more PhD holders than jobs in science, if suddenly the doctoral courses became more popular then even less people would have a job at the end. Maybe a couple of years with a postdoc for a few, but a tenured position? competing in the Olympic games would seem more likely.

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Among Japanese girls, working at food shops continued to be the most popular occupation for the 21st straight year

How depressing is this. Why aren't girls encouraged to be scientists and scholars.

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Fantastic that there is interest in the sciences, it will be important for Japan to innovate as its population decreases, but a terrible terrible shame that young women don't have similar goals.

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How depressing is this. Why aren't girls encouraged to be scientists and scholars?

I believe girls already outnumber boys in these professions.

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Too bad most of these poor kids will just be following the herds to mass hiring and poor wages.

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This is just survey for elementary school kids. Once they grow and learn reality then they will change their mind and most will prefer to do sales or work in government office where you will work for life. If you live in large cities then chances are higher to stay at university after graduation. Good luck being a scientist if you live in Kushiro, Kagoshima or Aomori.

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This is incredible news! Science-based professions should be the number 1 priority at all times

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I was talking to a female friend, we were discussing the lack of daycare and opportunities for women in industry in Japan. While the boys may be encouraged to take up science, and maybe even girls, where it goes from there in industry isn't all that promising.

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As Peter K, this is elementary school kids. Second is baseball players, I guess because of Ohtani, and third is footballers. Fourth will probably be firemen or spacemen.

More dreams than ambitions at that age perhaps, but much better than them wanting to be "celebrities", which I believe is a common answer in the UK.

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The survey targeted 1,100 elementary school and preschool children

Why would anybody take this seriously? The surveyed babies! If they had surveyed senior high school students the results would be much different. The majority of the boys aspire to be parasitic salarymen and the majority of the girls aspire to be housewives. Preschool and elementary kids in Japan are great! They have dreams and imagination, but this changes very quickly when they get to high school and become memorising clones.

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A multiple-choice questionnaire with limited choices ?

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I wanna be a scientist, got a great job, work long hours, not married and am forced to falsify data for the company. Great ambition.

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I wanna be a scientist, got a great job, work long hours, not married and am forced to falsify data for the company. Great ambition.

Don't be silly My nephew is a scientist and this isn't his life. Maybe it's the country that is the problem and not the job.

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