![]() ![]() That doesn’t go far on one of the world’s most expensive countries. ![]() The average freeter earns only $14,000 a year. Their career ambitions include becoming a professional DJ, playing in a band, designing video games and working as a manga artist. Some sell jewelry or other stuff on the streets or pass out tissues with advertisements on them at subway stations. Links in this Website: LABOR, UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNIONS IN JAPAN /Japan WORKERS AND THEIR COMPANIES IN JAPAN /Japan FREETERS, TEMPORARY WORKERS AND FOREIGN WORKERS IN JAPAN /Japan WORKING WOMEN IN JAPAN /Japan JAPANESE SALARYMEN /Japan Freeter Jobsįreeters earn around $7 to $10 an hour working at 7-11 convenience stores, budget restaurants and clothing shops and are employed as sales people, lifeguards and warehouse workers. Good Websites and Sources: Wikipedia article on Freeters Wikipedia Japan Times Article on Neets .jp Day Laborers in Osaka in the 1990s 2009 New York Times article on Temporary Workers NPR Story on Unemployed Temporary Workers Foreign Workers in Japan (2003) pdf file Chinese Migrant Workers in Japan pdf file NEET (not in education, employment or training) is another term used to describe young people not in regular jobs. Being a freeter was once a stage, now it is possibly becoming a condition.” As the economy worsened people who became freeters in the “90s found they could not escape and cannot acquire job skills. But now many have no choice because of the difficult job market. One survey found that 72 percent of freeters would like to work for a company and have a regular job.Īn official in the government Quality of life Bureau told the Los Angeles Times, “From the 1980s to the mid-1990s, most people chose to be freeters for the purpose of living their lives according to their own interests. There are basically three types of freeters: 1) the dream-chasing type (13.7 percent), those who are pursuing dreams in things like pop music and manga drawing and don’t want to be burdened by a real job 2) hiatus type (46.9 percent), those who have yet to decide what kind of career they want to pursue and 3) no other choice type (39.4 percent), those who have tried but failed to get a regular job. In that same time period freeters between 25 and 34 tripled. The number of freeters between the ages of 19 and 30 rose from 1.83 million in 1990 to 4.17 million in 2001, more than a fifth of the population between the age of 15-34, excluding students and homemakers. In 2006, 48 percent of those between 15 and 24 and 26 percent of those between 25 and 34 were described as freeters. There were 1.78 million freeters in 2009 according to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. Comparable in many ways to Generation X slackers, they like to hang out and pursue interests like snowboarding and surfing, work only when they have to and reject traditional Japanese values such hard work and company loyalty. Girl outside camera store Freeters (derived from the English word “free” and the German word for worker “Arbeiter”) is a term used to describe young part time workers. ![]()
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