{"id":75456,"date":"2025-12-02T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-work-win-catchphrase-of-year"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:40:02","slug":"japan-pms-pledge-to-work-work-work-work-and-work-wins-catchphrase-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75456","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM\u2019s pledge to \u2018work, work, work, work, and work\u2019 wins catchphrase of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi\u2019s not-so-catchy remarks about everyone working like a horse did not go down well in a country notorious for its demanding work culture<\/p>\n<p>It is not, perhaps, a word many people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> will want to hear as they prepare for the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/utter-torment-japans-party-season-loses-lustre-as-workers-dread-drinking-with-the-boss\">bonenkai<\/a><\/em> office party season and some well-earned time off over the new year.<\/p>\n<p>But the promise made by Japan\u2019s new prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/04\/sanae-takaichi-the-new-leader-of-japans-liberal-democratic-party-who-cites-thatcher-as-an-influence\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a>, that she would \u201cwork, work, work, work, and work\u201d on behalf of her country has clearly struck a chord.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/japan-pm-sanae-takaichi-work-win-catchphrase-of-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanae Takaichi\u2019s not-so-catchy remarks about everyone working like a horse did not go down well in a country notorious for its demanding work cultureIt is not, perhaps, a word many people in Japan will want to hear as they prepare for the bonenkai offi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,3455,705],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sanae-takaichi","category-work-life-balance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75457,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75456\/revisions\/75457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}