Last month, as the government of Shinzo Abe prepared for its biggest legislative push of the year, the Supreme Court considered a trucker’s case that underlined, for many, why change was necessary.
He had driven for his company almost all his working life and reached mandatory retirement age at precisely the moment Japan, in its demographic shrinkage, was running out of drivers.
One of the most experienced men on the payroll, he was rehired immediately to perform the same job he had done for decades. But, in the eyes of his company and now as a non-regular worker stripped of a regular worker’s benefits, his past counted for nothing.
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