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Re:Can Japan reboot its startup culture? by jpatokal on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @11:54PM (#6255051)
Quoting reddit:

In Japan you can look forward to low salaries, long hours, no advancement opportunities and working with trailing edge technology. Whats not to like?

And unfortunately that's only slightly hyperbolic. Full discussion below, and do bear in mind that it's a) an atypically good offer for Japan, and b) much of the audience is young English teachers on shoestring salaries.

http://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/zftls/found_a_softwar...

Re:Can Japan reboot its startup culture? by minikomi on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @11:59PM (#6255066)
As a web dev in Japan who can speak Japanese & is barely scraping by.. I agree, 670k JPY / month + 2 semi-annual bonuses is very high end wage.