Over 40% of workers in Japan sleep less than 6 hrs per night: survey – The Mainichi

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1. Now I understand why they sleep during work.

2. I gotta admit I’m quite guilty of sleep deprivation myself.

   I usually sleep 5:00 hours during workdays. Sometimes even less when I’m strongly invested in a project or activity.

3. I’m Japanese, living in the US and am the same way. Can’t break out of it.

4. Well if YOU attended 300 pointless meetings a day, stayed behind for hours after every shift pretending to be busy for absolutely no reason at all and went out drinking every other night as well, YOU’d sleep less than 6 hours a night.

5. Let’s! chorei!

6. so same as their school children then, spend 6 hours or less on sleep and 12 hours or more on studying/working. yet their output is declining in an international comparison. at what point do you as a country just stop and think “this ain’t working, we should just go to bed”?

7. I am part of the 40%. Having to go drinking with clients and wake up early for work doesn’t help.

8. And so many of these people claim to be “short sleepers”! Like what? Short sleepers are like 3% of people or something

9. “Anyways, why is our population declining?”

10. Easily believable. All the co-workers I know sleep less than 6. With probably some getting exactly 6 hours.

11. It’s horrific considering the research that the effects of a chronic lack of sleep are equivalent to a drunken state.

    The irony is that people in this country are eager to eradicate drunk driving while not aiming the same eagerness for sleepless driving.
    This is the typical example of the Japanese saying “It’s not scary if we all cross the red light together”.

12. I think that’s common for some other countries. Here’s a study in the US, albeit 10 years ago, that says [40% get less than 6hrs of sleep](https://news.gallup.com/poll/166553/less-recommended-amount-sleep.aspx)

13. Yep… I was never like this until I moved here. I get like 5 hours a night and I’m constantly tired.

14. Who the hell would try and date or even try to raise a family in those conditions.

15. My wife is like this. She comes home from work at 21:00 and if she wanted to get proper sleep, she would need to go to bed an hour later.

    Instead she stays up until 02:00 to catch up on social time, movies, reading etc. She then sleeps 5 hours and go back to work.
    I almost don’t see her on weekends because she uses them to catch up with her sleep, so it’s not uncommon for her to go to sleep saturday morning and remain in bed until sunday evening.