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Japanese does have inflections. Specifically, verbs are conjugated: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Japanese_verbs#Conju...
You are right, I meant cases [1] , like those that are there in German. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case
Wait, what are the benefits apart from 'we let you stay here and do your business and here are some lawyers and maybe a good word here and there'? This is absurd.
It's safe. There are fewer homicides in the entire country of 125 million than just the city of Chicago each year.
Just curious, anyone knows what's the advantage of starting up in Japan over say, Singapore? I know Singapore is predominantly English-speaking, you get all kinds of food and the laws are friendly to startups as well. If I'm an English speaker in Japan, there is a huge language barrier, on top of which there are also other minor nuances to be paid attention to such as: high rent (depends on your area), finding Non-Ja…
I now live in Japan full time.
I'll echo other replies and say more mature market and it's what I like to call a source of money rather than an aggregator.
Singapore's main benefit is being a "hub". If you have access to the direct sources of money though, it's a hard justification (By that I mean more mature markets in east asia that might not speak english)
I just came back from Singapore a few days ago and my assessment of the market is still the same. I talked to enough companies there to see it still doesn't make sense for us to be there yet. In general, I also feel like I can make more of a difference in Japan than SG (everyone speaks english but there aren't as many resources and companies are really conservative when it comes to buying software)
Is my information correct, or do I need to explore this further?
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This pretty much describes all countries aside from US
My understanding is that it's not trivial to get a visa in the EU as well, due to it being Shengen Zone stuff. Even for simple trips, my Chinese friends in particular have to jump through hoops. I also remember a scandal in France a while back when the gov't decided it didn't like foreign students staying to work in France after graduating, so changed rules to make it harder for people to stay afterwards.
Work permits for non-EU immigrants are issued at the national level and have very little to do with Schengen. Requirements vary quite a bit across Europe.
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Yes but why would you ever want to move there to create a startup? Not only you have to deal with enterprise related problems such as fiscal instability (rules changes almost every years, see for example how the auto-entrepreneur status changed over time), the URSSAF, a bureaucratic and slow administration but you have also to deal with a lot of issues on a personal level such as insecurity, terrorism, frequent riots…
Did you ever work in another country? I work in Germany with colleagues from many different countries, and our country does not suck. The French post is one of the best in the World, train delays are the same in France as in Germany (shall we compare with the situation in the US?), the administration is a PITA but they actually try to help instead of killing you (+ the number of organisms to help startups in France i…
Yes. I'm currently working in another country and I've been studying in Japan for a year. So I have few points of comparison.
Terrorism is not just a question of numbers. The problem is more about how the government handle the matter. When you read things like terrorists getting welfare[1] for years, the fact they can keep the nationality[2] and returnees jihadists from Syria will be welcomed[3], in addition to no state reaction after Charlie (which lead to the Bataclan event), no real proactive mesures against 15 000 people suspected of terrorism acquaintance or support[4], the problem is not current terrorism, it is the future. Because almost nothing is done against it and you can except to see the trend of multiples attacks per year (or month, Europe wise) to continue for years.
Should I mention that if you ever got red-handed in a terrorist plot you're only sentenced to maximum 10 years of prison[6], that can be further reduced for "good behavior"? It's even creating more of them actually.[7] And that hosting them is not even considered prosecutable?[8] And let's not dive in rabbit hole of the hundreds of salafist mosques that can preach hate against the French in total impunity.
It also have impact on daily life. Multiples subway stations are closed for hours everyday because of suspicious bags, the train station like Gare du Nord are closed and rushed by the police on a regular basis.
Anyway I could simply have started my post with a question, like you did: did you ever had a friend got shot in a terror attack?
I guess not, otherwise you would not just speak about numbers.
[1] https://francais.rt.com/international/44967-2-millions-deuro... [2] http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/2016/03/30/25001-20... [3] http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/11/09/01016-201... [4] https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/15-000-fiches-s-p... [5] https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/filiere-dj... [6] https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/filiere-dj... [7] http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/03/30/97001-20170330F... [8] http://www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-paris/article/2016/05/26/ja...
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This pretty much describes all countries aside from US
My understanding is that it's not trivial to get a visa in the EU as well, due to it being Shengen Zone stuff. Even for simple trips, my Chinese friends in particular have to jump through hoops. I also remember a scandal in France a while back when the gov't decided it didn't like foreign students staying to work in France after graduating, so changed rules to make it harder for people to stay afterwards.
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> Japan's greatest strength and it's greatest weakness is that just about everyone in the society is in the same "lane". This means you get a bunch of good and bad characteristics in the vast majority of the population. I've never heard it described this way before, it makes a lot of sense.
My Japanese girlfriend is always curious (from a distance) about America and what it's like there -- she sometimes assumes that it must be a terrible place because I chose Japan. I usually explain that Japan and America have the same average quality, but Japan's peaks and troughs are fairly close to the average, while America's are much more extreme. I don't know if that makes sense (and I'm not guaranteeing it's 100…
Why on earth would anyone move to Japan ? You get treated like shit, get paid shit, do shitty work, and work under morons whose only qualification is the ability to speak Japanese and bullshit in English... and this for Machine Learning. I can't imagine the things one has to put up with for more vanilla jobs. Moving to Tokyo must be one of the biggest regrets of my life. I'd look for Singapore or India even, compared…
Wait, what are the benefits apart from 'we let you stay here and do your business and here are some lawyers and maybe a good word here and there'? This is absurd.