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I often hear the stereotype that Japan is a country that is ‘living in the future’ because of its technological advancements.In reality, Japanese society can be surprisingly technologically backwards in certain aspects compared to many other developed economies.You need to carry cash anywhere you go because quite a lot of places, even in central Tokyo, don’t take card. I have memories of making a fool out of myself eating at a restaurant without sufficient amounts of cash.Quite a few people still don’t even own a credit or debit card.Free wifi is hard to come by.Phone contracts are inordinately expensive. We didn’t even have SIM cards until a few years ago.Hand-written forms in government offices, banks, post offices, etc.Hand-signed receipts to get anything reimbursed by your employer.Hand-written resumes and CVs for job applications, literally for every single job you apply to. This is a travesty.Government offices in rural settlements that don’t possess a computer.ATMs that charge you handling fees depending on the time of the day or week.You still see kerosene heaters in many Japanese homes due to lack of central heating and little to no insulation.(Partly translated from 外国人には信じられない、日本についての事実にはどんなことがありますか?に対するRyo Yokoeさんの回答)

There is a story set in Soviet Russia. A foreigner was once sitting at a restaurant and making a list of places to visit. An old lady accosted him at his table and asked him to put her name in the list. He thought it was very weird that someone asks to be in his errand list. But, for what is worth he just noted her name. Soon, there was a queue at his table. Everyone wanted to get their name in "the list". In Soviet Russia, everyone worried about being left out and not being in important lists [for getting food or government pass]. What if you lose out a government service?Like in the listmania in the Soviet joke, Indians have a mania for filling out applications - job and college admissions. The application forms are dirt cheap and Indian families are paranoid. Put both these together and you can find that Indians are applying to everything - a large number of colleges and a large number of jobs. People don't want to be left out.Indians apply randomly to a lot of places.This artificially boosts number of applicants. The fact is that 90%+ of applicants for anything are totally not serious and in some cases might not even know that someone in the family made an application in their name. This is not new. For instance, 1.7 million people applied for SBI bank PO jobs - 17 Lakh Apply for 1500 SBI PO Jobs; 4500 To Get Interview Call and in a Railways exam 1.5 lakh people applied, 30,000 registered and only 8000 sat for the exams - Only 29% of applicants sit for railway recruitment exam.This reflects bad attitudes than bad economy.The third point comes to location convenience. A lot of the engineers or post graduates who are applying for low end jobs might have their spouse/family who is working nearby. Many women used to work as bank clerks merely to support their husband's career although they might have gotten better jobs elsewhere.A question we need to ask is how many of the PhDs, doctors or engineers actually are working as peons given that we know everyone applies for everything. I'm assuming only a handful of those qualified people would be working in the lowest levels.The next question we need to ask is what kind of colleges did those so called Phd holders go to. Unless you do Phd at a top institution it is a waste of time and harmful to career. In many fields in India, getting a Phd is fairly easy. Getting a Phd in Physics from IISc sure is hard, but what about getting a Phd from a low ranked college? I believe there are a lot of Phds in India who are not job ready. Even in the US, a number of Phds end up as taxi drivers or hotel waiters. The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists—in 7 ChartsDegrees matter less compared to the institutions attended.Simply getting a BE, B.Tech, MBBS, MBA or whatever doesn't make one magically ready for jobs. Most Indian students are unfortunately never ready for jobs.My humble view is that this one news item hyped by a few Indian media sources doesn't indicate anything new, shocking or surprising.

It's certainly difficult to keep your optimism going sometimes.I spent six months unemployed when I was 23. I'm English, but I was trying to find work in Edinburgh to be near my girlfriend of that time. UK unemployment overall was at 13%, but it was a lot worse than that in Scotland. It was before the days of the internet, every job application involved a phone call, waiting for an application form, filling it in and mailing it back, and then the long wait. My bank were desperate for money from me - I was getting daily calls and letters from them and the pressure wasn't helping but I went for every job I could and even took to hanging around the job centre all day so that I could be the first to find out about anything new that came up. With what little money I had I bought two newspapers every day just for the classified ads. During those six months, I applied in writing for 140 different jobs, from offices to shops to garages to pubs and restaurants and factories, and I walked around the city, wandering into places everywhere and asking if they had any work. I had around twenty formal interviews - they all seemed to go OK but I always got a rejection letter shortly afterwards.Eventually, I got offered a job working in a car showroom that sold Fiats and Lancias. It certainly wasn't what I fancied doing for a career, but at least it gave me some money in my pocket. Once the salesmen had signed somebody up, which they did with monotonous regularity, it was my job to get the car on the forecourt ready for collection. I had to work six days a week, from 8am to 6pm and it paid me £60 a week, which was about a third of the average wage at that time. And then after three weeks, I got a phone call at 10pm on a Sunday evening from someone I had interviewed with a couple of months before and who had originally rejected me, offering me a job in their investment office for about twice what I was making at the car showroom. The car sales director tried to persuade me to stay, said he would make me a salesman, he even offered me a Fiat X19 as a company car, but in the end I went for the office job, which turned into a very rewarding career that lasted over thirty years.Keep on trying, and keep optimistic. You'll get there.[and I almost forgot - eighteen months later I went back to that car showroom and bought a brand new Fiat, and the sales director gave me a 15% discount. He was definitely one of the good guys.]