why did the early years of industrialized japan have a high labor turnover?

Answer 1

There are some statistics and reports that might help. From the labor turnover spreadsheet you might glimpse some ideas of why labor turnover may have been high in the early industrialization. Essentially, they didn't know what they were doing--both the industrialists and the labor pool. English and American industrialists had a lesser sense of loyalty and a weaker work ethic, although infinitely above that we see today, yet the personal purposes drove people individually. In Japan, ancient jobs were a social thing and a life-long matter at that. Americans could flit from job to job and occupation to occupation as the need fit, but the Japanese had to shoe-horn themselves into an industrial process that was alien in its tasks and procedures as it was in its social standing. It was therefore a doubly hard thing to do.