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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by james_s_tayler on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:48AM (#20766290)
It's like the 3rd biggest economy with a large population, and basically the closest thing Asia has to the West while at the same time being so not Western.

Interest in Japan is higher than average among the software developer crowd. My wife teaches Japanese and her biggest clientele demographic is single, male engineers in their 20s.

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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by kriro on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:43AM (#20766574)
I'd argue Korea is as close to the west, potentially closer.
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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by mr_overalls on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:55AM (#20768761)
A fascinating tool for comparing countries is Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, which looks at power distance, individualism vs. collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity vs. femininity, long-term orientation, and indulgence vs. restraint.

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/japan,s...

I computed the cosine similarity between Japan, SK, and the USA to get:

Japan-SK: 0.933

USA-Jap: 0.8315

USA-SK: 0.670

So it does appear that Japan is more similar to the US than South Korea using this metric.

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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by bitwize on Thursday August 22, 2019 @04:36PM (#20772141)
Well, the Japanese were once called Yankees of the Orient...

I think the least surprising result of all is that Japan and South Korea are both more like each other than they are like the United States.

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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by james_s_tayler on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:46AM (#20767392)
Pretty much. They both are. They stand in stark comparison to everywhere else in Asia.
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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by markdown on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:52AM (#20766620)
You mean South Korea. There is no country called Korea.
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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by jdietrich on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:14AM (#20767167)
Strictly speaking, there's no country called South Korea - there's the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, both of which make a territorial claim over the whole peninsula.
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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by sdinsn on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:50PM (#20770016)
You mean the 'Republic of Korea'?
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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by strikelaserclaw on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:27AM (#20777300)
I'd bet a lot of them also like anime.
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Re:Why Japan’s ‘shūkatsu’ job-seeking system is changing by aikinai on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:44AM (#20766581)
I think you replied to the wrong thread.
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