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It's about damn time the Japanese get back into entrepreneurialism. I walked around Tokyo seeing waves of people going to work and thinking, "there's way too m

• ekianjo 9y ago
  > slaving away as salarymen. They work long hours, but it's not that they are working super hard. Of course, it's a general statement, but definitely true when it comes to large corporations that constitute a large chunk of employers in Japan, especially for college students.
• hkmurakami 9y ago
  Funny, because people who grew up in post war Japan where they had nothing to lose and everything to gain, are some of the most driven and fearless entrepreneurs I've met. Once the country prospered, not taking risks became the logical choice, and I'd there's anything that characterizes modern Japan, it's rationalism.
• hardwaresofton 9y ago
  At which point in history was japan ever a huge entrepreneurial society? The business success that I hear about most from japanese companies is often taking an idea and making it better, not necessarily being the first to innovate. Though I guess I'm conflating being enterprising with being innovative, when the vast majority of enterprises aren't neccesarily innovative. Also, while I somewhat agree with the sentiment that japan should do more to spur people to innovate, I don't think that many other countries are much different, people just drive to work at the random job that doesn't really mean anything to them, rather than walk/ride trains. Also not sure that every single asian culture demonstrates this strong group think...