The labor market in Japan is assumed to be characterized by a "durable employment system" in which workers spend a large part of their profession working for a particular company or single industrial company (Hori & Nohara, 2006). The Japanese “internal labor market” has a number of characteristic features. In Japan, there is a well-defined boundary between white-collar workers and blue-collar workers in terms of professional category. This border is rather inflexible and impermeable. Almost no employee can become an employee during his working years (Hori & Nohara, 2006). In Japan, all classes of workers are expected to get the same pay system and are often enshrined in a community agreement based on a single-state section. (Hori and Nohara, 2006). Graduates in Japan, therefore, receive a salary or start at the lowest level offered on the entire job market. Furthermore, the salary levels of employees are always lower than those who have experienced manual labor until they reach the age of 35. There is a slow rate of progress up the pay scale and this method does not consistently promote risk taking either