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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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