Jan 3, 2020
Episode 1463: Final Premium Friday’s Friday
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Colombia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Mexico
seen from United States
seen from Dominican Republic
seen from China
seen from Argentina
seen from Austria
seen from China
seen from Iraq
seen from Albania
seen from Argentina
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from Iceland
seen from United States
Episode 1463: Final Premium Friday’s Friday
She’s back
shinbashi, tokyo, april 2017.
leica m9-p, 35mm
on assignment for de Volkskrant.
サイゼリヤ 渋谷宮益坂上店 https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1303/A130301/13121502/
Episode 1270: Friday’s Debut
Translator Notes:
Premium Friday is a real thing, and is an initiative by the Japanese government to encourage companies to have their workers take off early on the last Friday of every month. It was inspired in part by a worker who committed suicide after working hundreds of hours of overtime, though overwork being ingrained in Japanese culture has been a thing for a long, long time, so much so that there’s a Japanese word for death from overwork. I can only imagine that the inclusion of Premium Friday in Granblue Fantasy is intended to promote the concept (possibly in partnership with the Japanese government) and make it more culturally ingrained, in the hopes that that will make more companies adopt the idea. To date, only around 37% of Japanese companies either have adopted or have indicated the intention to adopt the idea.
I can’t believe the GBF new year’s event is about fighting a fried shrimp mecha sent by the japanese government to make everyone work less overtime
As seen on YouTube by: VICE News
