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I think he uses many examples in Japaneses' daily live. And those examples are those phenomenons we can easily connect to Japanese, such like work 10 hours a day, rarely take any vacation. Busy may be the perfect description for Japanese.
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the question is ""Why doesn't this cradle- to-grave, manic schedule bother them?" i think the answer is that Japanese are born with the character like obligation, respect the elder. They always follow rules and traditions. I think they prefer their live with orders and rules.
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I think the Japanese think that when they are doing their jobs; their time belong their company and their boss. I saw a movie talks about differences between american and Japanese labor. For example, Japanese won't ask extra salary for overtime working. But American cares about their salary and always ask about bonus. They think their time are precious. Their time are bought by the company; those time deserve high value.
4.
Butler prefers the American way of lifestyle. We can tall from how he describe Japanese lifestyle. He think if he lived the way like that; he would probably choose suicide. And he wrote about he would not trade his precious time for those convenient transportation.
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In paragraph 3, he wrote about American think that they trade their time for a steady salary which makes them felt their time are stolen. That shows American think time are their own properties.
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