Everything in that article is dated 2008, but even then the minimum salary requirements for japanese people were 35k baht to get a work permit. All the japanes

Everything in that article is dated 2008, but even then the minimum salary requirements for japanese people were 35k baht to get a work permit. All the japanese expats I've gotten to know in Bangkok last year were well paid and no japanese person would normally work for that kind of money. 30k baht is what a company would get away with for a thai person fluent in japanese doing customer support. Normal office worker salaries in Bangkok are about 20-25k baht without any language skills and they live hand to mouth on that money.