Employee Layoffs in Japan

Layoffs have begun. Instead of calling them layoffs, companies give employees 'no assignments'. Left with nothing to do, employees come to the office and find that their telephones and computers have been removed. It is quite obvious to everyone in the office which employees are no longer deemed necessary. This subtle form of 'non-verbal communication' is very effective. It is far easier for company management to send an employee adrift without a life preserver than to sit down with them and tell them to 'hit the road'.

I think it is time for the voters to throw out the current government and let Ozawa and his crew an opportunity to run the country. Let's prat that the next government can find its way through its own BS and turn around the economy and restore Japan's education system and social welfare system.