I recently finished up two years working for a large cloud provider in Tokyo, where we would help Japanese companies build on our cloud... so I had a lot of exp

I recently finished up two years working for a large cloud provider in Tokyo, where we would help Japanese companies build on our cloud... so I had a lot of exposure to different Japanese tech company practices. The hardest part for Japanese folks working in tech is that most documentation for any service, framework or any paper is in English. This puts a high reliance on sites like qiita.com. It often resulted in an unintended power hierarchy between engineers who could read the official doco in English, and those who became reliant on the English speaking in their team. Occasionally this would result in cases of pawa-hara or teku-hara.