Japan Needs More Engineers

[Mulboyne]

[Tsuru]

So is the rest of the western world. We're swamped in lawyers and administrators/managers but way short of teachers and engineers. The solution is already in the NYT piece: offer better pay.

[Charles]

..after Japan reached first-world living standards..

I don't know about standards, but the actual conditions seem pretty third-world to me, once you get out of the big cities. Hell, they seem third-world plenty of times when I'm in the big cities.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

Another problem the larger companies with international transplants have is that the very experienced/problem solving engineers go OS leaving none to teach the younger guys.

[Catoneinutica]

:?:

I don't know about standards, but the actual conditions seem pretty third-world to me, once you get out of the big cities. Hell, they seem third-world plenty of times when I'm in the big cities.

Yeah, that bit about Japan having reached "first-world living standards" made me laugh too. I doubt the average Frenchman or Australian would put up with 80 hours of unpaid overtime a month, a cattle-car commute, and a rabbit-hutch condo for which he's saddled with a housing loan that vastly exceeds his equity.