Japan’s unique sleep cutlure: ‘Inemuri’, the art of taking power naps • FRANCE 24 English

This is a common sight in Japan – tired commuters taking a quick nap on their way to work. And for good reason – almost 40% of Japanese people sleep less than six hours a night, less time in bed than their counterparts in other developed economies. They compensate with the practice of “Inemuri”, as FRANCE 24’s team in Japan reports.
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21 comments

  2. Japan is a robotics pioneer thanks to its advanced technology for exploiting and misusing biometric data to efficiently manage animals, like raising broilers or managing worker bees.

  4. Most of those workers don't get paid for that overtime, those companies have been exploiting employees.

  6. Advocate much shorter work weeks. There is zero reason – with exceptions such as transport, etc. – why the average working week should be more than 20 hours.

  7. One of the most important things for cognitive function (and to maintain life duration) is getting a good nights sleep. Power napping is not that. Definitely not when it becomes expected.

  9. Soon these tired workers will be replaced by AI and robots. They'll have their rest and being jobless.

  11. 0:27 , the japanese said he wakes up at 6 am and but in the video reporter said he wakes at 5. I will make it easier for others to understand: Roku ji means 6 o clock and kishou means getting up or coming out of bed. It seems the report is deliberately making is looking worse that than it really is.

  14. Sleep is extremely important, yet many people sacrifice sleep because they need to put food on the table and pay the bills.

  15. its a common sight in my country too, its not called inemuri, its called "people are being exploited, the transportation system is bad so people are tired all the time"

  16. I work the night shift. It can be hard to sleep for long hours because the world around you is up doing things when you trying to sleep. I sometimes am able to take an hour nap before work but in total with nap included, I only get 6 hours on average. Only on weekends I can get a full 7 hours sleep.

    There are people all over the world that lack sleep to make a living. It’s just the way of life. I work nights because I get paid a lot more money in my current job, than any job I did before. Costs of living in my state is very high.

  17. IT'S BETTER THAN HAVING TO DRIVE AN HOUR OR MORE at the end of a gruelling day to get home, worried that you might fall asleep at the wheel after a heavy week, at least these people get a decent cat nap and shut eye on their journey home

  19. I love it when Europeans find themselves fascinated with aspects of our "exotic" culture – and even our cutlure occasionally! – that are absolutely not unique or remotely fascinating at all. I'm pretty sure that humans take naps no matter where they live! Does the average person in any modern, industrial country get 8 hours of sleep a night? Since I work mostly from home now post-Coronavirus era I am able to sleep as long as I like, but it's very rare to be able to stay asleep for 8 hours.

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