But that may have more to do with Japanese life-styles. “In Japan,” says educator Yoko Muro, “it’s never a question of whether you enjoy your job and your life, but only how much you can endure.” With economic growth has come centralization; fully 76 percent of Japan’s 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two-generation households.
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但是,這也許與日本人的生活方式關系更大。教育家木野洋子說,“在日本,你是否喜歡自己的工作和生活從來不是問題,問題僅僅是你能承受多大的負荷。”隨著經(jīng)濟的發(fā)展,居住集中化也隨之而來,在日本一億一千九百萬人當中,足有76%的人生活在城市,社區(qū)和幾世同堂的大家庭已經(jīng)成為過去,取而代之的是單門獨戶的兩代之家。