日本为强制加班族休假而创建全国性假日.pptx

Around this time each year, millions of Americans are enjoying a three-day weekend heading into Memorial Day. 数以百万计的美国人每年都会享受三天的美国阵亡将士纪念日（Memeorial Da ay）假期。 It’s one of just 10 national holidays for a country that prides itself on a world-renowned work ethic. 这是美国为数不多的10个全国性假日中的一个。美国一向以闻名世界的职业道德而自豪。 But in Japan, the country’s government just unveiled their 16th national holiday. So, is Japan a holiday happy nation compared to its American counte rparts? Not exactly. 在日本，政府刚刚公布了第16个全国性假期。那么日本人是否和美国人一样享受他们的假期呢？不见得。 Officially beginning on August 11 2016, “Mountain Day” was ostensibly created to recognize Japan’s culturally significant mountainous regions. But The Diplomat reports that the holiday was actually most likely created to put a dent in Japan’s “overworked” population that largely refuses to use its government protected vacation time. A recent Wall Street Journal claims that the a verage Japanese worker only uses 8.6 of their paid vacation days each year. 从2016年8月11日正式开始实行的“游山日”假期表面上为了让人们意识到日本山区的重要文化意义。但《外交家》网站报道称，实际上，这个假期创建的最有可 能的原因是为了减少日本的“加班”人口，因为这些人大多数都不愿使用受日本政府保护的休假时间。据《华尔街日报》最近报道，平均一个日本员工每年只使用8.6天带薪假期。 quot;In Japan, there is of course paid vacation, but people dont tak e it,quot; Seishiro Eto, a member of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party that led support for the new holiday, told the WSJ. quot;I hope with Mountain Day, people will be able to take more of their vacation.quot; “在日本，肯定有带薪休假，但人们都不休假，”日本自由民主党成员Seishiro Eto对《华尔街日报》说道。“他希望山一天，人们将能够更大程度地利用他们的假期。”自由民主党支 持新设立的假期。 By comparison, workers in the US use an average of 10 of their 14 paid vacation days each year. However, a 2013 “Vacation Deprivation Study” says that still amounts to a staggering 577,212,000 unused annual vacation days in the US. 相比之下，美国工人每年平均使用10天带薪休假（共14天）。不过，根据E的2013年“假期剥夺研究” ，仍然有多达5.7亿多美国人未使用年假。 And the workaholic approach may not even be as effective as some think. After all, French workers have the largest amount of guar anteed time off of any major industrialized nation