“To be honest, I don’t know how to spend the time when we are suddenly given,” Seishu Sato, a 31-year-old finance worker, complained.
Although an extra-long vacation may sound like a great thing to many people, a lot of Japanese workers are apparently unhappy with receiving such a break.
Pedestrians walk past calligraphy with the name of Japan’s new imperial era, Reiwa, displayed in the Ginza district, in Tokyo, on April 1. Japan’s parliament approved a 10-day long holiday—dubbed the Golden Week—to mark the abdication of the country’s Emperor Akihito. Many Japanese workers were unhappy about it. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
Takeru Jo, a 46-year-old pizzeria worker, similarly lamented that he would be unable to take days off in his line of work. “On the contrary, we'll be super-busy," he pointed out.
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