Moeka Iida
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127 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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I'm sitting in a cafe with Torigoye Atsushi, a fifty year old man in Tokyo.
Мисе Торіго тсмі баб the time he graduated.
It was a time of bad economic conditions, he says.
All he could find was low paying jobs.
Mr.
Torigoy has spent most of his career working in the stock rooms of a luxury fashion firm.
His income has barely gone up over the years, and recently it actually fell.
His employer suddenly cut bonuses and revised its payment scheme.
But then, to his surprise, he came across recruitment ads by the firm offering higher base salaries for younger recruits.
His predicament is emblematic of something broader in the country.
He belongs to the country's so called employment ice age generation.
The Ice Age generation are people in Japan who graduated college and entered the workforce roughly between 1993 to 2004.
These people are now in their 40s or 50s, so I guess the English equivalent would be the Generation X or Gen X.
The Ice Age generation's experience is shaped by the burst of Japan's economic bubble in the early 1990s, and a lot of them having entered the work.
Force at a time of economic downturn, struggle with precarious, insecure work, and also low pay.
And in fact, their struggles are quite familiar to a lot of Japanese people.
So the woes of the ISIS generation is something that gets discussed a lot in politics and in the news.
And their economic hardship is also associated with a lot of social problems that Japan has.
For instance, like hikikomori or social recluses.
Japan's recent
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