I started thinking about it after I started high school. I was in a school that focused on going to university, so we were taught to study, go to university and get a job. I'll stay here until I retire.

That is why when you ask most students what their dream job is, most of them will say,"public servant". Because it is secure, has yearly pay increases, bonuses and you hardly ever get fired. Not because they are willing to help their fellow citizen, sometimes I think it is the opposite, once they get hired they feel privileged and feel they are above those they are there to help.

Millennial s in Japan have little interest in the job-hopping ways of their overseas counterparts, just like their parents, their grandparents, and their great-grandparents. How is this news, newsworthy, important?

Also, I spoke with a millennial (who, according to JT, represents ALL millennials) about an upcoming three-day weekend. She doesn't like them because she has nothing to do. No hobbies, no desire to do anything. When I was her age I could barely wait for one day off let alone three in a row.

Well it's not surprising is it really? Japan has decided to have over 40% of its working population on crappy part-time/ contract positions. Youngsters don't want to be in this group of losers if they can possibly help it. So thy look for stability, even if it means being worked to death, the norm in Japanese workplaces.

Struck me at first as a quote from someone in their 50s, not straight out of uni. It seemed so 'Showa'!

So much for modernization of education and learning goals here. The spirit of pragmatic self-conservation is alive and well in Japan, in a world of increasing confusion and degradation (not that it was never like that before).