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A Japanese friend that works as a teacher told me he wants to quit his job and
come to work in Europe. I asked why and he answered:

> EUに行くのが夢。 あと、日本社会の中でも教える仕事はスーパーブラック

What is the meaning of ブラック in this sentence? I understand it has a negative
connotation, but what does it imply actually? Is the job of teacher not
respected in Japanese society? I spent one year in Japan and it didn't look
like it to me. Does he mean that the job is tiring or underpaid?

In general, what is the meaning of ブラック when it does not refer to the color?
Thank you for your help!
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meaning katakana loanwords
Meaning of ブラック in this sentence about work
This ブラック refers to
[ブラック企業](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E4%BC%81%E6%A5%AD)
or ブラックな仕事, which is a workplace with terrible/illegal working conditions.
Typically, employees are required to work for a long time, not allowed to have
a day off freely, unpaid for their overtime work, or forced to face chronic
mental stress.

Note that this can happen even for respected professionals like teachers,
lawyers and doctors. Such people tended to pride themselves and volunteer to
overwork so as to meet the high social expectations, and few people seriously
cared about that. Recently, many people started to consider their working
environments are problematic and illegal.

He said 日本社会の中 **でも** (" _even_ in the Japanese society") because Japan has
been widely considered a hard-working country (cf.
[Karoshi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi)).
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