This PM is very new and those colleagues joined before. Yes, the current one seems more right wing and more aggressive towards China than the previous ones. But as far as I understand her measures against immigration are not targeting much engineering type of immigration, and she has not made working condition any worse, so they are still very favorable compared to China.

I guess I have a different kind of western reference, because for me 50h is still huge. The Japanese standard is 40h. In France, a full time is 35h hours, which is often translated to 38.5h or 40h + additional paid leaves to compensate (on top of the 5 weeks per year minimum).

The frequency of murder is much much lower than the frequency of over work at those giant companies. It's clearly not the same kind of challenge for a government. They could very easily knock at the door of those companies if they wanted to. But my guess is they don't because they want to keep growing fast on the international markets. It does sound silly be cause it is a false equivalence.

Well, you should have a check at any Japanese tech company. Japan does not produce much IT professionals, so these companies are made of a majority of foreigners for the tech part and most of them are Indian or Chinese. Rakuten is my example, but you can also check PayPay and Mercari. Japan also has a problem of overworking at the infamous "black companies" but those are definitely not of them. Out of all the shitty stuff at Rakuten, the work hours are actually reasonable and respected, down to 7:45 per day in some parts, if my memory is correct.

How comes it is still happening? According to my Chinese colleagues, there are contracts with even more hours that, and they came to Japan to avoid this culture. I thought this government had the means to impose its laws. Unless it has an interest not to, maybe?

The 996 (9 to 9, 6 days a week) is sadly very common in China. It's not just in manufacturing, it's very common at tech giants like ByteDance, Huawei and Alibaba. For a country with a political system that is supposedly based on an ideology that wants to improve workers life... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

You should check the extremists Hindus, Buddhists and the creepy cults in Japan.

Those benefit from the delusional attitude. If the people don't get involved, this has no chance to change. Building opinions, sharing them and voting is just the minimum to expect from a democracy citizen. Democracy is a constant struggle, not a stable situation.

Aren't Human Rights the best outcome so far of the supposedly "natural law"?
The concept of natural law is probably even easier to manipulate. Some used it to justify slavery for example.
Listening to a pretty much world wide consensus of what is good for humans is a pretty good way to reduce your own biases and the already existing effect of manipulations on your morality.
Empathy and integrity are struggling against other less positive instincts (fear, greed) inside humans heads, and it's rarely clearly labeled. So I think it's good to have a consensual guide to sort the thoughts out.

I think what is supposed to replace the belief in hell for some people to act well in modern societies is police and justice. Not always working, but maybe still an improvement.
The problem is science can't tell you what is morally good or bad. I think Human Rights is the best guide we have in terms of a fairly well accepted consensus of what is good for humans.

May I suggest to live in countries with a different religious majority to diversify your worst list?

It's not so much about being taboo, but rather about finding it cute and making a cute comfy product out of it.

They are called AI because they are made to simulate humans, so I guess they will also be able to do that by themselves at some point.

As opposed to doing something bad and hiding it?
Is this an actual question or some political opinion about some camp?