mfurmane 0 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 I found this interesting. Maybe it shows that the average japanese workday is no longer, and maybe even shorter, than everybody elses. http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/sto...0&w=RTR&coview= Link to post Share on other sites
Dims 0 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Hmmm....drawing a long bow there Furm. Have you worked for a Japanese company? More like with Japan's gender roles stuck in the 60's and a majority of mums not working, they have more time to watch TV drama than everybody else. Who knows? My experience was that the average japanese workday is still criminally long and fairly inefficient. Link to post Share on other sites
dale#1 1 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Some of the watching tv is actually done at work as well. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 I find that Japanese (that i know) will generally turn on the TV when they are home, even if they are not watching it. Link to post Share on other sites
mfurmane 0 Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 yeah, I suppose the gender roles do play a part in there somewhere. i do work for a japanese company. while everybody seems to be pecking away at their computers from before my arrival until well after my departure everyday, i am convinced nobody is really doing anything and would prefer to be watching tv. the younger guys do keep a schedule similar to mine though...unless they are workign for OT to save up for a new videogame or something. Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Furm, you must be working at one of those few Japanese companies that actually pay overtime. My company is supposedly "gaishikei" but they do not pay overtime and the work hours are as Dims described them "criminally long". As for the inefficiency, who has any ideas to improve this rampant inefficiency and endless meetings in the Japanese workplace? I cannot stand the TV being on when people are not watching it. I find Japanese TV a good way to study Japanese (both reading and aural) but the way that Japanese families do not converse at meals and yet watch mind-numbing cooking and variety shows until they go insane ... makes me feel rather sad. The only time we used to watch TV during dinner was if there was a rugby match on and my Mum was always appalled ... Maybe I just need to get out of Japan for a while. I need help! Link to post Share on other sites
mfurmane 0 Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 Yeah, at least I hear they pay overtime to the hourly guys. All salaried guys are completely salary. My ma would never let us watch TV during meals either. Good for the family, I think. Caused us to eat real fast though...ha. I too need to get outta here...114 days left! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 I went to the doctor's once in a state of semi-collapse and in the waiting room I could no longer bear the noise of the TV manga. It was a 'girl's tennis' manga, with lot's of agonized female grunting and exertion, and it did my aching head in. So I stood up and turned it off. It was like I had stood up and pulled my trousers down. Everybody, stared at me, including all the people who weren't even watching the hot cartoon tennis action. They kept staring at me after I sat down. Two minutes later, the 'nurse', realizing that something was horribly amiss in the waiting room, came in and turned it back on. I asked her not to, explaining that it made me feel more ill, but this was an emergency and the TV had to go back on. Another good example of Japanese service employees listening to the customers I thought as I died in the corner listening to Miss Cartoon Tennis. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by woywoy: Maybe I just need to get out of Japan for a while. I need help! Thats why I got outta here for Spring Break. Gawd, I was gonna go postal on somebody from just being sick of thangs here....ahhhh feel better now Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Look yamakashi I made an excite poll Link to post Share on other sites
scoobydoo 0 Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 I have found that too - the tv seems to be on whether people are watching it or not. Like my parents might have the radio on. At least with radio it's usually music rather than just the shouting that goes on for the most part on tv here. Link to post Share on other sites
Dims 0 Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 Just a long series of "so desu ne!" and "oiishi" was how I found Nihon T.V Link to post Share on other sites
scoobydoo 0 Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 so desu ne! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 The 'music' shows with that guy with the sunglasses are possibly the most intolerable shows. A whole succession of moody-looking dorks with gelled hair say "yoroshiku onegaishimasu", "yoroshiku onegaishimasu", "yoroshiku onegaishimasu" and, then the guy says "sassoku" (no not, NOT sassoku, we've had ten minutes of exciting "yoroshiku onegaishimasu" already!) then they all sing bad songs through their noses. I know that TV is largely a vehicle for advertising, but couldn't they come up with a format that doesn't involve formal introductions and the resulting keigo? It would be so much more ... alive. Link to post Share on other sites
charlotte 0 Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 It makes me laugh that... all the rock stars stood there looking meek and saying their yoroshikus etc. Link to post Share on other sites
mfurmane 0 Posted April 14, 2005 Author Share Posted April 14, 2005 but that's the way J tv has always been....they can't just change it! Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 I can just imagine some of the music programs in the US or the UK with the guests all bowing and being ultra polite like that. Can't you? Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 yeah, Id love to see somebody like Iron Maiden, Eminem, Rage against the machine, 50 cent, etc out there bowing and speaking in polite (hell, even proper English) to each other... Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I asked a friend I know, she's a housewife and if she's not shopping she spends most of the day at home. She said the TV is on --- all day! Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Just saw another thing last night that said something like the average hours of tv watching in a day is over 4 hours.... a DAY! That just seems nuts. How much do you watch. If there is nothing special on, it's just about 30 mins for me, usually the news. Link to post Share on other sites
Davo 1 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 TV is basically rubbish and a waste of time wherever you go. I frequently have to grumble at my girl and turn it off. Most of the time she's not even watching it and she guiltily agrees that it shouldn't be buzzing away. I like it for documentaries, news, and the occassional decent movie. I find the rubbish ratio for movies to be about the same as it is for TV. One thing is for sure, you're not going to get to retirement age and think to yourself "Man...I wish I'd watched more TV when I was younger". Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 4 hours per day!! I watch a grand total of 4 hours per month max, with 2 hour as the average. I would like to see more documentaries, but that requires reading the tv guide... and that is something I have not done in over 10 years. I think TV is almost the lowest 'street level' icon of first world society. I simply do not understand people who enjoy tv. I work with a guy and besides his family I think his next source of pride and self identity is his massive collection of dvd's. My anti-tv high horse is one that I will most certainly not dismount nor apologise for any time soon either. [by 'street level' I mean an icon that is common to nearly all people within our society, like a mobile phone, which by the way I now own and pay never any more than £10 per month, a bill which I am quite proud of in this age of mobile phone mania ]. Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 If you include watching your own DVDs and stuff, then I probably average about 1hr a day, maybe a bit more. Pretty much the only thing I watch on broadcast programs is the news. Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Japanese tv scares me. I watched a soapie 'a beautiful life' and it is truly bizarre... are all jap shows that strange? Link to post Share on other sites
minus 1 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Lots are. I watch almost no Japanese tv, watch a bit of overseas news and movies though on Sky. Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts