【Every Day Is Hell】Me: “65-Hour Weeks, Lonely, Exhausted—So I Eat.” | The Reality of a JP Worker

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Another long week, another plate of comfort. I’m Hiro—an Osaka salaryman (≈65 hours/week) and friendly neighborhood debtor—trying to stay sane the only way I know: cooking at home in a 6-tatami apartment. As we say in Japan, binbō hima nashi—“the poor have no free time.” Same here.

In this vlog I:

🍚 Start with fresh rice from the morning pot and a tour of my one-room kitchen (two burners… somehow not meant for real cooking).

🥣 Build a simple miso soup from katsuobushi dashi, leftover tofu, and shimeji mushrooms.

🧅 Sauté onions (raw = punch, cooked = peace), then add Iberico pork—gracias, Spain.

🫚 Make shōgayaki (ginger pork) with a dead-simple sauce: soy : sake : mirin = 1 : 1 : 2, plus grated tube ginger.

🧼 Confess my “dishwashing grind” is half truth—there’s a dishwasher—but today I film hand-washing.

🪵 Care for my hinoki cutting board: wash, light soap, alcohol spray, and fan dry.

😴 Close my eyes and let work slip away… until tomorrow starts exactly the same.

If this slice of real Japan hits you, Like, Subscribe, and tell me your comfort classic: shōgayaki or something else?

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