Wages are also much lower in Japan than the USA. Average Japanese software developer salary is 32,164.34 USD [1]. Even accounting for purchasing power parity, i

Wages are also much lower in Japan than the USA. Average Japanese software developer salary is 32,164.34 USD [1]. Even accounting for purchasing power parity, it's still only ~40-50K. That's peanuts. I made $110K straight out of college, with another $100k through equity. I did get lucky through equity (at the strike price, my RSUs would only have been ~50k per year) but even excluding equity that's over twice the average Japanese developer salary for a new grad. https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/software-developer-salarie...