I’ve lived in Japan continuously since 2004, and would agree with somewhere between 80 and 90% or this. (Point of differance: I’d be surprised to meet a non-Japanese professional in any setting other than the technology industry or a foreign corporation.)https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/979563538485100545 …
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This includes situations where background for the situation should be overwhelmingly in favor of me being literate, such as “I am here to open an account at the bank so I can repay the materially sized mortgage that you have exhaustively underwritten me for.”
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But: four out of four banks asked were willing to write a mortgage for me, and that is remarkable.
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When I moved to Tokyo from a medium sized city outside Nagoya 10 years ago I was pleasantly surprised that few people here gave any particular reaction at all when I would speak to them in Japanese
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It came across to me like it was nothing unusual to them, a feeling I didn’t have in the previous place
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