“Work Style Reform” by Japanese Government might shift the issue from facing Japanese demographic problem itself. For many years in Japan, their “labor productivity” has been significantly low, compared to the other countries. It is said, Japanese labors should have multi skills with more precise, more rapid operations. The employees is said to be responsible to those low efficiency rates, not employers or politicians. But is it true? My English friend told me a fact. “The major source of Japanese social and economical issues is their demographic problem.” Let me examine from open data by World Bank. https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-indicators It is called “labor productivity” in Japanese language, but its English term shows the easy understanding about it, that is “GDP per capita”. This graph (Fig. 1) is GDP per capita (current US$) for several countries (G7 and BRICS). The RED curve is for Japan. Japan's slump ...