I find all these anecdotes interesting, but I'm not sure how much I can extrapolate from them. I've worked in Japan, and seen the inside of a few Japanese comp

I find all these anecdotes interesting, but I'm not sure how much I can extrapolate from them. I've worked in Japan, and seen the inside of a few Japanese companies. I've seen some weird stuff. I've worked in other countries too and I saw some pretty weird stuff in those companies too. Thing is, I think there's a tendency too attribute weird things that happen in Japan to "Japanese culture" where-as sometimes it's really just a weird thing that happened... I think that's less of a case perhaps in other countries, where you have a better understanding of the baseline culture. I'd love to see more studies/data on what the average experience is like.