1) Japan is an outlier is every cultural aspect compared to the West. HN is not a Japanese forum. 2) Japan is notorious for low wages for software. So what you

1) Japan is an outlier is every cultural aspect compared to the West. HN is not a Japanese forum. 2) Japan is notorious for low wages for software. So what you're really saying is that one demographic willingly accepts being underpaid. That doesn't sound brilliant to me.