{"product_id":"the-japanese-who-could-not-work","title":"The Japanese Who Could Not Work — Voidness in Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTen essays. 59 pages. PDF — delivered the moment you buy it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-two I went on welfare in Japan. The most common thing Japanese people said to me was: \u003cem\u003eyou don’t work, so you don’t get to talk about work.\u003c\/em\u003e One of them went to the city office to report me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the long answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does one country need a word for death by overwork? Where did the “duty to work” written into the Japanese constitution come from, and who put it there? Why is it the people just above the line who attack the people just below it? And underneath all of it: how was “Japan” assembled in the first place — a country that, until the third century, did not exist under that name at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot written by a historian. Written by someone the state moved to a town on the Chiba coast where the buildings that stay open are the pachinko parlour and the love hotel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eContents\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. The Religion of Work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDid Japanese People Misuse Confucianism?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Do Japanese People Work Themselves to Death?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Japan, Do You Have No Human Rights If You Don’t Work?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Did Japan Establish the Duty to Work?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Limits of Japanese Welfare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. How Japan Was Made\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Origins of Japan’s Class Society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAncient Japan and China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDid Japan Once Not Exist?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Japan’s Aristocracy Was Surprisingly Terrible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Where It Lands\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Tokyo Suburbs\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten between 2025 and 2026. Instant download. Nothing ships, and there is nothing to wait for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"miyama void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48725794652405,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/5888\/7925\/files\/cover_the_japanese_who_could_not_work_f87985f4-a2e9-4c99-bde0-27cbd9640045.png?v=1787461404","url":"https:\/\/miyamavoid.shop\/products\/the-japanese-who-could-not-work","provider":"miyama void","version":"1.0","type":"link"}