Its employment system still tends to reward seniority and status rather than performance, in what Japanese call aku byodo or “bad egalitarianism”.

它的雇佣体系仍趋向于让高级别和地位的雇员获得更多，而非根据受雇者的工作表现，这就是日本人所谓的“糟糕的平均主义”。