Is Japan's software industry killed? If you're asking why they don't have a Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook, could it just be because they speak a langua

Is Japan's software industry killed? If you're asking why they don't have a Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook, could it just be because they speak a language that's only useful in Japan and not anywhere else in the entire world? If you're actually in Japan they have tons of apps, tons of software, tons of games, tons of many things "software". Certain things fit Japan better than others but for example Mercari (the ebay of Japan) is 1000x better than anything I've seen outside Japan. Japan's feature phones ran rings around the rest of the world's phones until iPhone. There are certainly other factors like possibly underpaying, not valuing experience, etc... but I think the basic premise of the piece is probably missing the forest for the trees.