Japanese culture
How Japan Has Changed, as Told by a Japanese Woman in Her 50s (Part 2): The Employment Ice Age, Job Hunting as a Woman, and Long Hours as a Systems EngineerNew!!
November 9, 2026
Key points of this article What Was Japan's "Employment Ice Age"? The employment ice age (就職氷河期, shūshoku hyōgaki) refers to the period after the bubble economy collapsed in the early 1990s, when companies drastically cut back on hiring new graduates. It roughly covers the generation who went job hunting between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. […]
How Japan Has Changed, as Told by a Japanese Woman in Her 50s (Part 1): Work in the High-Growth Era and the Father Who Put Work Before Family
November 2, 2026
Key points of this article What Was Japan's High-Growth Era? The high-growth era (高度成長期, kōdo seichōki) refers to the roughly 20 years in which Japan's economy recovered rapidly from the depths of the post-war years and kept on growing. It began in the mid-1950s and ended with the first oil crisis in 1973. People born […]