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		oldspiceman on Nov 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doing Business in Japan These companies have been around for 150 years. Same thing goes in Korea. They employ a massive slice of the populations of both countries.

bmmayer1 on Nov 7, 2014 [–]

What about companies like Softbank?

icebraining on Nov 8, 2014 | [–]

Well, Softbank's founder is a son of Korean immigrants who moved to California at age 16, attending high school in SF and studying CS at UC Berkeley, after which he founded a company before moving back to Japan.

Not exactly the typical Japanese citizen.

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