Time Off and Japan: A Culture of Leisure that Lost Its Way

Foreword to the Japanese version of the international bestseller Time Off

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I could feel the excitement in the room. Everyone’s faces had lit up, eyes sparkling, dreaming of lives filled with vitalizing leisure, supercharged productivity, and a pervasive sense of joy and calm. The general consensus seemed to be “this…