I would like to hear more Japanese weigh in on this, but I have lived in Japan for more than 11 years and think this is a horrible fluff piece written by someon

I would like to hear more Japanese weigh in on this, but I have lived in Japan for more than 11 years and think this is a horrible fluff piece written by someone with little more than stereotypes & superficial knowledge of the country. A few specifics: - "Japanese-English" tends to take words from foreign languages and use only one specific meaning. The words "entrepreneur" & "freelancer" have negative connotations, but not the ideas behind them. We just call ourselves "founder" & "contract expert" and get along just fine - China, India & Japan have rather large populations, in case you haven't checked wikipedia recently. There are some VERY large on-line companies here that dwarf many (most?) western companies, that you simply haven't heard of. - "Life-long employment" & all the ideas people have about it in Japan died when the Bubble burst back in the 80's, and was crushed during the latest recession. There is still a system that makes job-hopping difficult, but most Japanese - while they may not expect to change companies during their career - no longer look at it as some sort of unmentionable thing that could never happen to them. - There is actually a quiet boom among upper level management to leave their companies and start new companies. Years of frustration with the old-fashioned corporate culture & reaching a point where they can do so with a bit of security has done a lot for this movement - And finally, as a personal observation - IMHO, there are few people like the Japanese for becoming so passionate about a subject that they will finally leave their jobs and start that tiny, overly-specific shop or bar or restaurant simply because "it was always their dream". The type of completely impractical thing that everyone in the US would urge them not to do - because we always look at these ideas as "will it make you a millionaire?". Perhaps because life IS so regimented here, people have a little cornier sense of romanticism about "chasing your dream", and cut a lot of slack that they wouldn't give someone who was just chasing a get rich plan. So, in summary - I wouldn't put a lot of effort into analyzing this article, if I were you.