A survey Wednesday shed further light on how Japanese regard their U.S. counterparts, including that they see Americans as idle and not the industrious worker bees admired by the rest of the world.
The Pew Research Center poll found just one in four Japanese consider Americans to be hardworking, sharply lower than the assessments of respondents in other countries.
The facts contradict this: A 2015 survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that Americans work an average of 34.42 hours a week, compared with 33.06 hours for the supposedly work-obsessed Japanese.
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