The need is because your comment diminishes actual modern slaving in East Asia and is an incredibly disrespectful stereotype of a "salaryman".

Is American "crunch culture" any better? Does that crunch culture in America represent America as a whole?

"The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development does annual research into the amount of work done by the average citizen in a given country over the course of the year. According to these statistics, these countries rank higher than Japan in terms of average working time in a year: Mexico, South Korea, Greece, Chile, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Israel, Iceland, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, and the United States. Even New Zealand ranks higher than Japan on documented hours worked."