Oh yeah, that's exactly the same thing. As usual Japan has everything figured out that we're missing in the west. (We've got some things they're missing too, of course.)

> As usual Japan has everything figured out that we're missing in the west.

The reason I said "(perhaps inaccurately)" is because as far as I know, the Venn diagram came from an article from a European country and only later did someone slap the "ikigai" label on it and make it famous.