Leisure time in Japan Although Japanese also have “Leisure time”, but the style of the Leisure time is quite different compared to the western culture. There are two factors to compare the difference which are time use and leisure activity. First of all, there are less vacation time in Japanese society because of the social system are not allowed to have long vacation especially working age. Even though the government has promised to take effective measures to increase the vacation, that seems not effective at all. In addition, the daily work is too hard that they can’t do other necessary things for example, housework. Therefore when they get free time they tend to spend time for doing housework or sleeping. Secondly, according to Japanese holiday institution, it is not easy to take large holiday. Even though people can get longer holiday, usually it is no more than 10 days. Therefore, the activity that people can do is very limited. Therefore, I think that Japanese people are not define leisure time. The concept of the leisure time is different. In Japanese society, I could say there are no leisure time because people can not relax if they do other housework or other tasks to do in the time that suppose to be leisure time.