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Thanks for sharing your experience. I've been to Japan a few times and absolutely love it. I hope one day, I'll get the opportunity to live and run my business

Thanks for sharing your experience. I've been to Japan a few times and absolutely love it. I hope one day, I'll get the opportunity to live and run my business from there. Do you an email where I can reach out? I'd love to learn more about your business. My only experience is as a tourist observing the workers and it does look as what you described with longer hours and great importance placed on work but that companies will also reward you with loyalty. I've also heard that hiearchy and respect is important. I feel like there could be certain values that could be extracted as part of Western society - we recently had a retailer reporting bankruptcy and being unable to afford the pensions/severances of employees but somehow the management team was retained and were provided with decent bonuses. Something seems broken there.

ian_in_osaka 9y ago
Thanks for reading and that's great you are interested in living and setting up your business here. You can email me from the contact box or from the address on this link: https://www.innerspeakerconsulting.com/contact https://www.innerspeakerconsulting.com/contact Yes the long hours, hierarchy and respect are all true. I used to work for a Japanese company and some of the hours were brutal but it was great experience to be fair. Like you say, Western countries could learn a fair bit from Japanese values (respect, being in control of emotions, integrity etc). It's certainly a very interesting place to live and work and I highly recommend coming over if you get the chance. Feel free to reach out via mail if you have further questions about living and working in Japan. Also check my blog as I'll be posting articles about my experiences over here which might be interesting for you. Thanks for reading!

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Thanks for sharing your experience. I've been to Japan a few times and absolutely love it. I hope one day, I'll get the opportunity to live and run my business

by tixocloud 9y ago

ian_in_osaka 9y ago
Thanks for reading and that's great you are interested in living and setting up your business here. You can email me from the contact box or from the address on this link: https://www.innerspeakerconsulting.com/contact https://www.innerspeakerconsulting.com/contact Yes the long hours, hierarchy and respect are all true. I used to work for a Japanese company and some of the hours were brutal but it was great experience to be fair. Like you say, Western countries could learn a fair bit from Japanese values (respect, being in control of emotions, integrity etc). It's certainly a very interesting place to live and work and I highly recommend coming over if you get the chance. Feel free to reach out via mail if you have further questions about living and working in Japan. Also check my blog as I'll be posting articles about my experiences over here which might be interesting for you. Thanks for reading!