On: Why I left Japan after 10 years

[JMCQ87]

Do you think that's an outrageous idea?

I imagine lots of (young) Japanese people would look for better working conditions abroad, if they only had better English skills.

[hulahoof → JMCQ87]

I did think it was outrageous, however I didn't consider it from this angle.

If you were the Japanese government, what method would you use to keep your professionals?

They are a country that isn't embracing mass immigration, with an ageing population and slowing economy..

[mahyarm → hulahoof]

The level of english has been like that even when they were in economic boom times 30+ years ago. I don't think it's any specific conspiracy.

[ekianjo → JMCQ87]

> I imagine lots of (young) Japanese people would look for better working conditions abroad, if they only had better English skills.

AS they don't put intent where the fault is rather at how piss poor people are at doing things. Maybe there is some small part of intent (I live in Japan though and there's a never ending feed of companies that want to teach you proper english everywhere) but I rather suspect that the Japanese education system is just very poor at teaching language in general (and not just English), and that's certainly not limited to Japan.