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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DominiConnor" data-source="post: 43563" data-attributes="member: 104">I've had a reasonable variety of feedback about working in Japan, and opinion seems to vary more than for most places.Pretty much all agree that Tokyo 'works' functionally better than many other large cities. However they report a degreen of naked racism and sexism that is unique in developed countries. One example from my own experience was a Japanese girl lent to my team who adored Madonna. A lot. I used certain facilities that a large outfit had made available to me to get her an excellent ticket, this was a non-trivial task, but I've always believed in rewarding people who work hard.Strictly speaking she wasn't one of my people, and she had to get permission from her boss to go. This was on her day off, not during work hours. He refused for some reason, and she took it as a reasonable thing. Since this fuckwit bowed deeply to me (I don't do bowing), it transpired that I could order him to let her, but he'd take revenge, apparently. One highly qualified black colleague of mine that I had personally hired because he was the best person money could get to do his job couldn't get the Japanese men to speak to him at all. Ironically he was a black belt in two martial arts, and 6ft 5 and with a evil smile that Eddie Murphy would kill for. He dealt with it by standing up straight and talking literally over their heads, smiling in a way that a rational person would see as a cue to grab a gun. He also used a variant cockney dialect that only a native Brit could understand, even though his accent is rather like mine.Tokyo is not for anyone who has issues with crowds or noise, and it's not a place where you want to go unless you have seriously worked out the expense deal with your firm. I head bad stories about how JP Morgan HR has screwed people over on this.Tokyo is the least quantish of the major markets, being somewhere around the level of Glasgow but below Delhi and Dublin. My database has more quants in New Zealand than Japan. It's mostly driven by the size of the Japanese economy, not international trade like London or NY, so is rather like Frankfurt, a city that also divides people. Some say Frankfurt is the worst financial city to work in, some say it's fine because you can land your helicopter near the office and never come in contact with the city itself.Being inward looking and not on a major growth curve, it's hard to see it as a land of opportunity. But some people really love the culture, and these tend to be people who are either geeks or those who like the rich and deep culture.It's arguably the worst city anywhere to drive a car, but crime is very low, possibly the two correlate.</blockquote>

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