The document discusses occupations in Japan and how the prolonged poor economy has affected the job market. Many full-time employees have been replaced by temporary contract workers as companies downsize. While there are unique Japanese terms for occupations like "salaryman" and "office lady", the economy has led more firms to hire temporary workers to help with daily tasks while full-time staff fear losing their jobs to these temporary replacements. The document also lists some common occupations in Japan.

1. Occupations

2. Because of the prolonged bad
economy in Japan, regular full-
time employees 正社員 (seishain)
in many Japanese firms have
been replaced by contract
temporary workers, 派遣社員
(hakenshain).

3. The job market in Japan has
been greatly affected by the
prolonged bad economy and
many firms have chosen to
downsize the company.

4. Most of the firms hire temporary
workers to help in the daily
works.

5. This has caused the full-time
employees to be afraid that their jobs
will be taken over by the temporary
workers and become the next victim
of company downsizing, リストラさ
れた (risutorasareta).

6. Among the Japanese occupations there are some
special names created by the Japanese which can
be found only in Japan, such as サラリーマン
(Salary man) and オーエル (OL - Office lady). These
unique names of Japanese occupations were
created using 和製英語 (wasei eigo), which are
Japanese words constructed of elements from one
or more English terms.

7. There are many different Japanese occupations but I will only list
the most common ones:
ADULT FILMMAKER
TEACHER ENGINEERS
FISHERMEN CHEFS
YAKUZA
MANGA WRITERS
MODELS
REALITY TV STARS
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS