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Given the overwhelmingly unfavorable business climate, why wouldn't this theoretical enterprising 26 year old just leave for SV? Immigrants have played a big ro
by w1ntermute 11y ago
Given the overwhelmingly unfavorable business climate, why wouldn't this theoretical enterprising 26 year old just leave for SV? Immigrants have played a big role in the Valley for decades, but there haven't been many from Japan. Perhaps that drive is just destroyed/suppressed by the culture.
- jonny_eh 11y agoOne cannot easily immigrate to the US to work, especially without a sponsoring company.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoVisa restrictions or the preference to continue living in Japan.
- jessaustin 11y agoWhether there are zero or thousands of 26yos taking this option, they are irrelevant to the situation in Japan, because they aren't there anymore.
- rtpg 11y agoor perhaps they don't want to live in SV? Tokyo's pretty nice