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Originally Posted by tokusatsufan
I read if you want a job then you have to work in Tokyo or you're nobody,basically. I don't believe everything I read but I think that might be true.
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And this false belief is why people keep going to Tokyo, suffering through it, and end up whining about the work conditions, poor pay, etc. (Talking about Japanese people.)
My husband gets called in fairly regularly to Tokyo to do specialty work. He gets paid more than his counterparts in Tokyo, has a bigger house, better commute, fewer hours, etc etc than they do... And apparently is enough of "somebody" to be called in.
If you actually look at economic growth, these days it is so expensive to keep a business open and running in Tokyo that a lot of companies dropping a small office there and moving their main operations elsewhere.
It`s more like "If your company doesn`t have a branch in Tokyo" than "If you don`t work in Tokyo", really, as any company worth something will have at least one branch in Tokyo.
Any real economic growth in Tokyo has been zero for the past so many years, with other prefectures in a much better state when it comes to employment.