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A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan

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Re: A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan

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Post by ktRolster »

patio11 wrote: post #7

From my understanding, lawyers working with non-Japanese-speaking clients charge a premium. This is true for essentially all professional services in Japan (and, relatedly, can be true for renting depending on how one goes about that), and it is not driven entirely by costs. Partly, this is simply "You require something which is much harder to deliver than standard services; this restricts your labor pool by > 98% he…

I'm generally polite when asking for the literate professional rate precisely once.

What do you do when you need to ask more than once?

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Post by bpodgursky »

rev wrote: post #17
rpeden wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd probably want to combine them and run an elder-care business staffed by robots to get around the labor supply problem.

Or still yet, a robot-care business staffed by ever more populous and longer living Japanese. Because Japan!

There's some evidence that much of the reason the Japanese are so "long lived" is just pension fraud by surviving relatives: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html

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Post by [deleted] »

patio11 wrote: post #7

From my understanding, lawyers working with non-Japanese-speaking clients charge a premium. This is true for essentially all professional services in Japan (and, relatedly, can be true for renting depending on how one goes about that), and it is not driven entirely by costs. Partly, this is simply "You require something which is much harder to deliver than standard services; this restricts your labor pool by > 98% he…

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Re: A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan

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Post by andy_ppp »

grabcocque wrote: post #9

Japan's population is expected to collapse over the next few deacades, and that population will be increasingly past retirement age. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demogra... So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from.

Maybe Japan will become more open to people from other countries living in Japan; I'm probably moving there soon and if you have contracts with Japanese businesses you can self sponsor a visa. Seems fairly progressive to me.

Re: A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan

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Post by jstandard »

mantas wrote: post #16
Cyph0n wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? Why would anyone migrate to Japan then? You'd think that they'd have started relaxing the requirements, given the low birthrates and shrinking labor pool.

They kinda don't give a shit about that birthrate and declining population thing. Instead they aim for post-labour era with robots and not much manual labour. In addition to that, they already have lots of young people who can't find solid jobs. For the last 20-ish years they economy doesn't grow. Big companies usually keep their old employees for a really long time, but don't grow. Thus youth don't have positions to…

As someone with close friends in Japanese government (Ministries), I can tell you they do care VERY much about about their declining birthrate and stagnant economy.

Re: A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan

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Post by Arizhel »

mjolk wrote: post #19
grabcocque wrote: post #9

Japan's population is expected to collapse over the next few deacades, and that population will be increasingly past retirement age. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demogra... So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from.

> So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from. As well as the tax burden for supporting the aging portion of the population (similar to considerations of basing a company in Florida, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, or other high-percentage elderly population US state).

That won't happen in Florida. Florida is very right-wing and low-tax. Any older people unable to support themselves there will be left out in the cold (by the state government at least).

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Post by xyzzy4 »

grabcocque wrote: post #9

Japan's population is expected to collapse over the next few deacades, and that population will be increasingly past retirement age. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demogra... So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from.

That's the price of freedom. Banning birth control and abortions would probably keep the population growing or at least stagnant.

Re: A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan

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Post by jpatokal »

jstandard wrote: post #26
mantas wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They kinda don't give a shit about that birthrate and declining population thing. Instead they aim for post-labour era with robots and not much manual labour. In addition to that, they already have lots of young people who can't find solid jobs. For the last 20-ish years they economy doesn't grow. Big companies usually keep their old employees for a really long time, but don't grow. Thus youth don't have positions to…

As someone with close friends in Japanese government (Ministries), I can tell you they do care VERY much about about their declining birthrate and stagnant economy.

...they're just unwilling to actually do anything about it. Allow immigration? Make it possible for women to have careers after childbirth? Stop funding increasingly ridiculous infrastructure boondoggles and give tax cuts to consumers instead of zaibatsu? Hire and promote based on talent, not seniority and what school you graduated from? Nope nope, it's all too muzukashii.

I've been visiting Japan regularly for 20 years now. To a first approximation, nothing about the fundamentals above has changed.

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