Seriously, while this is a bit oversold, you've got to feel for Japanese twenty-somethings. I nearly killed myself with overwork as an intermediate engineer, and my salary would just about pay for a US English major their first year out of school. And I had one of the best jobs in Japan.
Japanese twenty-somethings are being promised jobs with similar hours, worse working conditions, more work, no guarantee of lifetime employment (oh ho, there's a biggie), etc etc. Those that can get jobs, anyhow: un- and under- employment are pretty bad here for twenty-somethings. Meanwhile, there is a looming public benefits crisis because the intergenerational transfer is ultimately unsustainable. (True everywhere, but in Japan the demographics are particularly bleak.)
Is it any wonder that opting out of The Offer is so popular right now? Work holidays (i.e. go to Australia for a year, work in hospitality/food service/etc) are quite popular in my social circles: after all, if you're going to make restaurant wages regardless of what you do, might as well get a vacation out of it.
There are something like half a million Japanese single twenty-somethings with no jobs or decent prospects of getting them, and the traditional solution (marry her off to a salaryman) runs into the problem that a) increasingly it is a "him" and b) there are insufficient unmarried salarymen to go around.