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Given the overwhelmingly unfavorable business climate, why wouldn't this theoretical enterprising 26 year old just leave for SV? Immigrants have played a big role in the Valley for decades, but there haven't been many from Japan. Perhaps that drive is just destroyed/suppressed by the culture.


One cannot easily immigrate to the US to work, especially without a sponsoring company.


Visa restrictions or the preference to continue living in Japan.


or perhaps they don't want to live in SV? Tokyo's pretty nice


Whether there are zero or thousands of 26yos taking this option, they are irrelevant to the situation in Japan, because they aren't there anymore.




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