Receiving financial supply from their parents dissuades many young people from working as they can live by using money provided by their parents. Pressure from family members along with the youth’s over-dependence on family seems to have a major influence on Japanese youth’s employment pattern as well. With the support from the Internet, these NEETs and Freeters can easily contact each other and form their own sub-culture groups, and further separate themselves from the mainstream workforce. Besides discouraging Japanese youth from joining mainstream workforce by eliminating their confidence, the Internet and social media also make mainstream jobs less appealing to the youth as they offer these people various chances to earn money effortlessly. Another element that continues expanding these groups is the development of the Internet and social media in Japan. The contradiction between traditional gender expectations and the rise of Japanese women’s independence could be a possible reason leading to the increasing number of NEET and Freeter.
In order to explain the difference between the percentage of female NEET/Freeter and male NEET/Freeter, I also consider the changes in gender roles in Japanese society. Consequently, they prevent a lot of Japanese people from joining the full-time workforce. The combination of a seniority-based system and performance-based system as well as their contrasts has increased the competitiveness in the job seeking war while eliminating some of the employees’ former benefits. The first social change related to the establishment of these two groups is the transformation of employment system. Throughout the study, the relationship between Japanese social changes, modernization process and Japanese NEETs and Freeters is thoroughly examined. My paper attempts to analyze the existence of NEET (No Employment, Education or Training – ニート) and Freeter (Freelancing part-time worker - フリーター), two common groups of young unemployed people and irregular workers in Japan.
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