Is social chasm growing in Japanese society

These days, social chasm is growing in Japanese society. I’ll talk about this issue with two aspects.

First, winner and looser. Performance based system, so called merit system has been installed in our society for the last two decades. As a negative aspect of performance based system, it generated stressful working environment. Employees are driven by the pressure that they need to bear fruits. Some people lack their confidence and they evaluate themselves as looser when they can’t perform well. For example, one of my subordinates who left our office due to mental depression confessed me that he was overwhelmed by excellency of coworkers and he felt inferior. I don’t think he’s looser at all. But he was annoyed by huge gap between his perfect world and real situation. Anyway, we lost one personnel. If the number of withdrawal increase, we’ll loose national power.

Second, economical gap. Let’s take net café refugees. People who don’t have stable residence and who stay at net café instead, we call them net café refugees. They don’t have stable job and they get by as daily worker with low income. They might be victims of modern society. But I believe that they choose their ways on their own. They pursuit too much better working condition. They avoid harsh working condition such as long hours of hard work. For example, caregivers from Philippine play an important role in our society to compensate for the shortage of Japanese workers. Anyway, the fact remains that a lot of people are struggling with low income. To the contrary, investors such as Horiemon handle huge money with greater ease as if they are playing with money.

In conclusion, we are facing social gap including mental withdrawal and economic difference in our society. To enhance our strength, we need to reduce huge gap.