Japanese investors

Chapter 584 Graduation Season

The graduation season of Japanese universities is in March and September respectively. The reason why there are two months is mainly because different universities have different admission times for freshmen.

Seikei University, where Fujiwara Rena is studying, is welcoming its graduation season. She is already a senior and is about to graduate.

Often at this time, fresh college graduates, before leaving campus completely, are busy looking for jobs and only have to eat "part-time meals". Japanese college students need to eat N meals.

A class needs to eat, a major needs to eat, a club needs to eat (if you participate in a few more club activities in the university, you will have more food), and good friends need to eat even more...

Once a person formally enters society, his or her social attributes and identity will completely change. No longer a college student, but as a social person, busy survival is the first priority.

For non-Tokyo residents, if they want to stay and work in Tokyo without returning to their hometown in the countryside, they naturally have to work harder than their local classmates.

Fresh college graduates in Japan know very well that once they are separated, it may be difficult to see each other again in the future. Even if you have a good relationship in college, you will still face the problem of going their separate ways.

College couples have to face choices and trade-offs. Graduation means breaking up, which is by no means a joke, but is actually happening in every venue at this time.

This does not mean that both men and women need to say goodbye to a chapter in their lives or that they no longer like each other. They have begun to realize that love is sometimes really vulnerable in the face of reality.

Especially for graduates from non-prestigious universities, it becomes more difficult after they graduate. Their future survival pressure will not be small.

If your family is not in Tokyo and your abilities are average, you still have to insist on working and living in this largest city in Asia. Just dealing with the various bills at the end of the month is stressful.

Graduates of prestigious universities have at least one regular gathering every year based on connections such as personal connections and interests. Even if you don't use it now, it doesn't mean you won't use it in the future.

Whether a person, especially a man, can stand out in the past basically had to be around 30 years old, but now it has become around 35 years old, or even around 40 years old.

The reason for this situation is still caused by delayed retirement. If the old guys don't retire, their positions won't be available. If the people in front don't free up their positions, how can the people behind have a chance to take the lead?
  Fresh graduates from non-prestigious universities, let alone unemployed after graduation. Most of them are quite confused about where they are going or what they want to do in the future.

Even if a small number of people have a clear understanding of themselves or certain plans, they will continue to be frustrated due to various reasons.

This often happens, what they like, others don't like them, and what they don't like, others may not like them.

However, as long as you are young, there will definitely be a job in today's Japanese society. Restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets... these places still lack a lot of labor.

It’s just that young Japanese people are unwilling to engage in those jobs from the bottom of their hearts. Even if you only graduate from junior high school, even if you do it, it will still feel forced and helpless. After all, people have to eat!
  In the eyes of today's young Japanese, it is not only unseemly and can be seen at a glance, but also has low income, little social status, and is generally looked down upon.

Those with high incomes still need to endure hardships even if they do not require academic qualifications. They can't bear the hardship. It is also a job that one is not willing to do to engage in heavy physical labor.

There is no need to engage in heavy physical labor, long hours of work, and there are no so-called holidays, such as truck driving, taxi driving... This is also a job that Japanese young people are unwilling to take the initiative to do. In their minds, those are occupations that middle-aged and elderly people should pursue. If a young man like himself does this, he will inevitably be ridiculed by his peers.

In short, they would rather be a cowherd than do those jobs that are so good that they don’t know where they are, and have a better future.

If the parents of the family have pensions and only have one child, then such a person will most likely choose to become an otaku.

Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly difficult for fresh graduates from non-prestigious universities to get a formal offer from a formal Japanese company.

If you still want to join a large company as a formal member, it will become more and more difficult. This is something that is difficult even for fresh graduates from prestigious universities.

However, fresh graduates in Japan generally have an unprecedented attachment to being a formal member of a large company, far better than taking the civil service exam.

On the one hand, it is decent, high social status, good income, and sound welfare benefits. On the other hand, the company is stable and will not easily go bankrupt or lay off employees.

Japanese civil servants, especially local civil servants, are no different from ordinary employees. This is often the kind of test that low-ranking people like to take.

In Japan, except for some central cities, they are basically not very good. There are very few places like Karuizawa Town.

The salaries of local civil servants are closely related to local finances. They will never receive similar annual income just because they are mayors, village chiefs, or town chiefs at the same level.

Not to mention the mayor of Yubari City, the first bankrupt city in Japan, even the vast majority of mayors in Japan do not have as high an income as Karuizawa Town.

Although Japan's political system is capitalist, it is subdivided into many autonomous groups. Each autonomous group does not pay local taxes to the government, and some even require subsidies from the central government.

Precisely because the finances of each autonomous group are different, there are huge differences. Even in the same city, there are differences. Minato-ku in Tokyo provides free teeth cleaning twice a year to residents in the ward.

This is the only one among the twenty-three wards of Tokyo. Even Chiyoda and Chuo wards only provide free teeth cleaning once a year.

Some other wards, such as Shinjuku, Shibuya, Setagaya, and Bunkyo, also provide annual teeth cleaning, but charge a nominal fee of 500 yen.

As for poor areas such as Adachi and Arakawa, even if they still provide annual teeth cleaning, they still charge more.

This does not include the various regular examinations for women once a year. If they are in Minato City, Chiyoda City, and Chuo City, they are still free, while other districts will charge a fee.

More expensive vaccines, such as those to prevent uterine fibroids in women, are only available at the lowest price even if they are not free in the three districts of the city.

(End of this chapter)