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Tokyo, Japan.
Working day: 9AM-6PM. The one hour lunch break is not calculated as work for the salary. So an "official" working day is only 8 hours.
Almost everybody does overwork - it's almost a shame to leave at 6PM and it's not very recommended to leave before your direct manager - and many companies do not pay for extra time spent in the office. Usually I work from 9AM to 8PM. I almost never leave before 7PM and sometimes I stay up to 11PM (special cases). So my weekly average is somewhere between 55-60 hours. But I like my job (.NET) so basically nobody tells me "don't go home". I just stay because it's challenging and I don't like to go home before solving "that" problem.
Probably I am half assimilated. 
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KL, Malaysia.
Working day: 9AM-6PM. The one hour lunch break is not calculated as work for the salary. So an "official" working day is only 8 hours.
Situation about the same in Malaysia.
Almost everybody does overwork - it's almost a shame to leave at 6PM and it's not very recommended to leave before your direct manager - and many companies do not pay for extra time spent in the office.
This only applicable to knowledge workers, management employees and the employers. Operational or administrative employees are normally punctual workers. (At least in my company)
I work till roughly 7pm every week day. Later than that are mostly some exceptions.
I would say normally Programmer = Assimilated Being
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I really appreciate your feedback, but what about social security system in Japan?
I think is very interesting for European people to know how are taxes and social prestations in your country.
Thanks.
(My litle brother love Japanese things, so many guys between 15-20 is suffering a "Japanization" here in spain (he is even studying kanjis and his t-shirts use to show some japanese letters and so on), yeah I know our cultures are very different. You know, manga, video games and Japan culture, are driving crazy so many young people here..., I comment you cause I am very surprised about it)
Just three words: void main(void)
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It seems that you live with the (false) impression that I am a Japanese guy 
I have to disappoint you  I am from Europe and I am a temporary resident of Japan. Working here as a software developer.
Yes, Japan is a wonderful country if you like work The people really appreciate your efforts and you can see that harder you push, more recognition you gain. Of course you don't have time for anything else during the five days working week (usually nobody tells you this when they hire you ) ... but if you are willing to pay this price, then you will REALLY enjoy the weekends 
And now to the eternal problem... taxes
The Health Insurance is officially 8.5% of the taxable income and covers 80% of expenses. 4.25% are paid by the employee and 4.25% are paid by the company.
The Pension (Social Security) is 17.35% of the taxable income, including 8.675% paid by the employee and 8.675% paid by the company.
The Unemployment Tax is 0.8%. (I'm not very sure about this)
The Income Tax is about 10% for a salary of 6,000,000Y/year (about 50,000USD). The figures change with your salary and there are lots of things taken into account including bonuses, dependants and so on.
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So we have: 4.25+8.675+0.8+10=23.725%
You have to add to these Social Insurance taxes (which are decent compared to some European countries) the National Tax and the Local Tax. I have no clear idea how much they are... something like 20%+3% of the Taxable Income, maybe more... too much anyway.
Not quite related to the salary, but good to know, is the consumption tax: 5%.
I'm tired of all these taxes... going back to work 
.x.
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