Quote Originally Posted by Colorful View Post
unless Japan has some fucked up laws regarding vacation time.
Mandatory 5 days of paid vacation per year. Right to paid leave for 10~20 days per year. However due to corporate culture most workers in Japan are encouraged to work very long hours of overtime, so much so that it was the cause of 1/3 of Japanese suicides in 2011 iirc-- can't speak for the culture of SE but I would imagine there's at least a little bit of it going on because even in the West game development is subject to "crunch time" where teams work absurd hours to get games out the door.