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Giving up on their aspirations was considered to be a failure to the self. The ways men imagined their futures and their failures were broadly related to education level. Among university-educated men there were generally two opposing possibilities that male freeters raised for their futures. They would either a continue to work as a freeter whilst attempting to realise their aspirations which did not include becoming a salaryman ; perhaps not get married unless they became financially successful ; and have the door of full-time regular employment slam shut in their mids.

Or, b at some point give up on achieving their aspirations and attempt to find stable, regular work, thereby most likely they felt being able to get married and live a secure, regular life. In both of these scenarios a sense of failure was endemic. Yet in the second scenario they felt that they would have failed themselves by shelving their aspirations and succumbing to a way of working that many had been seeking to move away from.

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Ken, a year-old man, felt this particularly keen. He wanted to be a successful musician: he loved music and felt that it was a core part of who he was. He seemed driven to succeed. However, he gave himself a strict time-limit—if he was not successful by the age of 26 he would quit and search for a regular job despite the fact that he also had other options:. My mother is a folk musician and she understands my music. My father and uncle run a couple of restaurants, one of them overseas. But at the same time I have to be realistic. Ken was concerned about a number of things: a closing window of time in which he felt free to pursue his aspiration to become a musician; pressures he felt from his father and uncle who want him to be more responsible and help continue the family business; the feeling that he has disappointed them; and a strong desire to not work like they do.

Despite the fact that the option of taking over a profitable and exclusive restaurant was available to him Ken suggested that he would have to quit being a musician in his mids as a result of the difficulty of finding a regular job as a man becomes older.

In a later interview he inferred that he would be able to keep his identity as a musician more easily if he worked in an office job and continued to play in his free time than he would if he were to take over the family business. In his narrative Ken clearly follows social norms in suggesting that there comes an age where a man must put aside his personal aspirations and become more responsible. He iterated a worry that came up repeatedly in interviews with male freeters: the regular employment market continues to have clear age-grades and cut-off points despite the increased precarity of youth employment, making it difficult for freeters in their late 20s and 30s to find full-time work Kosugi Many men did not, however, have the kind of good education and profitable family business to fall back on if they failed to achieve their aspirations.

Whilst men from middle-class backgrounds tended to have strong aspirations to become musicians, artists, and entrepreneurs, those men who had junior high and high school educations tended to actually aspire to finding a regular full-time white-collar post. Most, however, were not holding their breath as to the possibilities of successfully finding such work.

Yoshio, for example, thought that he would be unable to find a full-time job because he was already in his early 30s, had no high school diploma, and a varied employment history that consisted of him having been a bookseller, working for a removals company and most recently, a host. Companies, he thought, would not look twice at him. Yet he was desperate to find such work, largely as a result of a serious romantic relationship he was in.

During our encounters it was clear that Yoshio was strongly conflicted regarding his future work life and his ability to both get and then subsequently maintain a full-time position due to his previous work experiences:. The best job I had was working in Book Off. I really enjoyed working with the customers, most of whom were young, and the relationship amongst staff was really good.

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I felt free to express my thoughts and opinions about work and that made the working environment much better … I felt free jiyu na kanji. It was really enjoyable, and it was a constructive place to work kensetsuteki ni. My mother had become ill with cancer. I was very busy at work and my body got weak.

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I became unable to work and so handed in my resignation. After taking some time off and recovering he decided not to rejoin the bookstore because he felt unsure about his physical condition. Although he was sure they would re-employ him he did not want to cause them any trouble meiwaku if he were to get sick again. When recounting his illness and subsequent resignation he seemed ashamed that he had been unable to balance the stressors and referred a number of times to his weakness. For example, after recovering he took a job at a removals company because he thought it would make him stronger.

However, after two days on the job he quit:. It was exhausting. By the end of the first day my body was so painful.

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I realized that this was not a job for me. I am not strong enough. His most recent job had been as a host. He worked for just over a year but then quit due to feeling an unsuitability to the role:. It was a really difficult job because I prefer to listen rather than speak.

And in that job it is necessary to speak a lot and make conversation with women. I also had to drink as part of the job, but not get drunk…that was really hard. But we had to drink to keep the women company and to sell them more alcohol.

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I worked six days a week, usually from 10pm to 7am, but when it was my turn to open I had to be there at 8pm. I worked there until I broke my body karada wo kowashita. Before I quit I was talking to two of my co-workers who had second jobs at a convenience store. I was thinking about taking a second job to earn more money as many of my co-workers were doing. Here Yoshio again draws on his physical weakness as his reason for quitting. When discussing wanting to find a regular job, he was unsure if he would be able to remain in such a job for the long-haul, and worried that he would quit.

Yoshio does not only suggest that he will fail but he also exhibits a sense of failed masculinity.

So why, given that Yoshio was well aware of the difficulties of finding a regular job and his uncertainty as to whether physically he would be able to handle the stress of a full-time job, did he aspire to finding such work? Why was he setting himself up to fail? From his narrative it is clear that his motivation was strongly influenced by his romantic relationship:. I want us to live together and get married, but it is impossible now because I am not really working … I think we can only go to the next step after I am on a stable path antei na michi.

But I worry, because I think that it will be difficult for me to get on a stable path. Companies want people with experience, and I have none. But if I study design and get some experience then maybe I will be able to find a position in a small company…maybe…. Yoshio is clearly concerned about the repercussions that his work background may have on his desire to further his relationship. He also clearly states a prevalent attitude among my informants: that to get married, one has to be on a stable path already.

In contrast to Mathews and White , who suggest that freeters and other non-conforming youth collectively represent a refusal to enter the adult social order, it is clear that the majority of freeters, in smaller urban areas at least, are not rejecting the adult social order. Many, once they reach their late 20s scramble to enter it through giving up on their aspirations in order to participate in stable work and forming families despite an expectation of failure.

Marriage as a signifier of full social adulthood in Japan has long been acknowledged. For example, a number of authors such as Edwards , Lunsing , Dasgupta and Hamabata explore the widely-held belief of the importance of marriage in the attainment of ichininmae full adult status. Despite the fact that increasing numbers of people choose to postpone or not marry at all cf. Opting out of, or being unable to marry, therefore often carries the implication that a person is both strange hen and is not a full adult Edwards ; Lunsing Murata , illustrates how this can have significant repercussions on single middle-aged men in the workplace, and Lunsing has discussed a variety of strategies that individuals develop to deal with or avoid these normative demands.

Some younger men reject expectations outright. For example, Hideki, a 25 year old working in a brand clothing store, stated:.

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