Education and growing up
School routes and post-graduation options change with the birth cohort.
COUNTRY LIFE / JPN
Life in Japan: how birth year changes school, work and home
A life born in Japan in 1950 does not grow up in the same society as one born in 2000. Choose a birth year, explore changing industries and households, then make your own decisions through school, work and family life.
01 / QUESTION
Born in Japan in 1980—what happens at 18?
At age 18 the character reaches 1998. Education and work context follows that year, rather than borrowing figures from birth or from 2025.
Japan / 1950–2025
From school to a first job
Further study, a first job and later career changes can open different paths in the setting of that generation.
02 / START
Set your birth
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
03 / GENERATIONS
A country across generations
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
1980Sources and scope
These are national employment shares, not personal job odds. Industry classifications changed around 1995; read the long trend rather than an exact cross-era difference.
04 / EVERYDAY LIFE
Choices along the way
Work and careers
The shift from farming to services reshapes the backdrop for work and career moves.
Family and everyday life
Household size, housing and care can become decisions in daily life.
Life across generations
A child born in 1950 grows up in a different Japan from one born in 2000.
05 / SOURCES
Sources and scope
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
Statistical Handbook of Japan · employment by industry
Original source ↗Population Statistics · household size
Original source ↗School Basic Survey · graduate destinations
Original source ↗06 / LIFE ARCHIVE
Lives that began here
Only completed simulation records voluntarily made public by players appear here.
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