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Re:In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home o... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday June 20, 2019 @04:14PM (#20236872)
Post WWII, Japan was in the position of "work like crazy so that we don't all starve". So their culture became "work like crazy". That position ended perhaps by 1970, but the culture survived.

There may also be other factors, but I think this is one.

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