Let me add that low-salary that rises is still low. My Japanese teacher 20 years ago bragged that Japanese CEOs don't make obscenely more money than their empl

Let me add that low-salary that rises is still low. My Japanese teacher 20 years ago bragged that Japanese CEOs don't make obscenely more money than their employees. I countered that western CEOs may make more but they also pay their employees far far more and generally don't making their employees work 10am to 11pm 5+ days a week. I'm my particular field I halved my salary to come to Japan and tripled it going back to the USA. Even funnier I was working for a Japanese company in the USA. I worked for 2 large Japanese companies (one with 4000+ people. The other with 300,000+ people). Both had limits of ~$60k a year set by the HR department no matter how much experience. That's less than interns make at Google USA. A typical engineer out of school makes around $20k a year at a Japanese company. Here's some data on average yearly salaries by job type in Japan https://doda.jp/guide/heikin/gyousyu/ https://doda.jp/guide/heikin/gyousyu/ Here's a page from Sony's job info showing starting salary at $2.5k a month or $30k a year https://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Jobs/careers/info/detail.html https://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Jobs/careers/info/detail.htm... Random ad for C programmer for device drivers at Panasonic. $52k a year. https://persol-hrpartners.co.jp/tech/SB070200/orderSearch?orderNo=20347369&banner_id=ade1282 https://persol-hrpartners.co.jp/tech/SB070200/orderSearch?or... In fact even more evidence, if you go to Indeed.jp (a job listing site) the settings for salary top out at $60k a year. Add to that age discrimination (expected age is often in the job listing)