The Daily Beast ran an article on a work attendance system based on facial recognition that also assesses whether employees are smiling cheerfully enough. If an employee isn't smiling cheerfully enough they cannot log on to their computers. At the end of the workday, smiles are assessed again and leaving from work is impossible if one cannot muster a convincing enough smile. The software is also used to publicly humiliate anyone who is even slightly late or cannot smile cheerfully enough. The Japanese Diet (=parliament) is about to legalize 100 hours of overtime per month and remove overtime pay from many white-collar jobs.
Japan sounds like hell on Earth. I like Japanese cars for their reliability. Now I'm seriously considering if I should boycott everything made in Japan or by Japanese corporations. I try to avoid buying products that are made using child or slave labour or in the production of which animals have been tortured. I wonder if the Japanese people deserve to be ranked below animals or slaves. But they're doing this to themselves.