they number in the millions, they work in restaurants, convenience stores, as security guard or cramschool teachers, and the ranks of casual workers in japan are increasing.Contrary to a popular belief, this rapid rise has more to do with japan`s economic stagnation and corporate cost cutting than a rejection of a lifetime employment in one company, or the desire to have free time to pursue artistic ambition. it is difficult to put precise figure on the number of freeters. The world is a compound of the english "free" and german "arbeiter" or worker, but the number is somewhere between 2.4 million and four million. The popular image of the freeter portrayed in television dramas is a free spirit who does a range of part time jobs to fit in with a trendy, bohemian lifestlye.
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Just another corner shop soon to close."it was us to recruit who invented the word with a film called `freeters` that came out in 1985 about the trials and tribulations of young people who dreamed of being actors or musicians and do casual jobs in the meantime," said katsunori fujimoto, editor in chief of from a magazine owned by the recruit publishing giant which provides information and classified job adverts for freeters. "it was us at recruit who invented the word with a film called 'freeters' that came out in 1985 about the trials of young people who dreamed of being actors or musicians and do casual jobs in the meantime," said Katsunori Fujimoto,editor in chief of "from a" magazine owned by the recruit publishing giant which provides information and classified job adverts for freeters.
The propotion of freeters cherishing a dream has been around 15 percent for the past decade accroding to Reiko Kosugi, senior researcher at the Japan Institute of Labor. But...