Strict Japanese labour laws make "involuntary" lay-offs unfeasible for all but the frailest companies.

根据严厉的日本劳动法，除了业绩最糟糕的公司，其它任何公司都不得“强制”裁员。

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Even the frailest residents of Willi Kupas Retirement Home will say, with a smile on their faces, that their retirement has been, even is, the time of their lives, involving a spending power few of them ever previously experienced.

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