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I think there is nothing wrong about 10 days or 40 days. It is more important how something matches your expectations. If you expect 28 days and get less then that's bad.

As European I really enjoy long vacations and use them for personal development. I guess I could still do that in Japan without long vacations but I guess I would need to do that on time of company.

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"I guess I could still do that in Japan without long vacations but I guess I would need to do that on time of company."

So in other words, you'd need more than 10 days of vacation.

I don't think expectations are important at all here. When vacation time is established at national, cultural levels, the expectations of the population will reflect that.

I think in IT you are creative person and you can't create more than you want to. You can be extremely productive but there is upper limit. If you get 10 days and don't get 28 days like European you get that 18 days in some other way.

There are about 15 national holidays in Japan. Also, if you stay at the same company (which most people tend to do if they can) you're entitled to an additional vacation day every year up to 20 days. So a person with a 5-year tenure will have 15 + 15 = 30 days a year.

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