So I don't think Kyocera is one of the top "black companies". At the very least, anecdotally, they haven't made the lists mentioned by some of my friends. Gene

So I don't think Kyocera is one of the top "black companies". At the very least, anecdotally, they haven't made the lists mentioned by some of my friends. Generally I found that the "black"est companies in Japan happen to be the ones that pay the most (that aren't foreign held). IMHO, most "pure-bred" Japanese companies vary from a shade of gray to black. A lot of the things that are part of work life there would be probably pretty off-putting to us, starting from recruitment (during college).