Topic 1. The rainy season

Q1. Do you like the rainy season? Why and why not?

Q2. How to change the mood for the rainy season?

Q3. Please tell me how to spend the rainy season? What is your recommendation?

Q4. Please share the memories or episodes of the rainy season.

Topic 2. Work style reform
Title: Should we accept the " high-level professional system" ?

Japan's lower house passed a key bill to promote work-style reform.
The legislation consists of three pillars setting a legal cap on overtime work, ensuring equal treatment for regular and non-regular workers, and exempting skilled professional workers with high wages from working-hour regulations so called "high-level professional system".
Let's discuss about "high-level professional system" in work style reform.

Q1. What the merits and demerits of the "high-level professional system"?

Q2. The opposition parties have critisized that the "high-level professional system" encourage long work hours and lead to an increase in "karoshi," or death by overwork. Do you agree with this criticism or not?

Q3. The "high-level professional system" targets professional employees, including dealers at financial institutions and researchers whose annual wage is more than 10.75 million yen ($99,000). But the types of jobs and annual incomes targeted in the professional system can be changed by a ministry order, without debate in the Diet. Should we accept the " high-level professional system" ?

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180525/p2a/00m/0na/004000c

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180531/p2g/00m/0fp/079000c