Move now or later in career when JPY is better? Japanese-American considering FAANG opportunity
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ilovecoconuts
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@gingermarie I know which company you are referring to. L6 level? 
I can contribute the following thoughts:
- Are you familiar with work culture in Japan? It seems your communication with Japanese workers would not be an issue but would their ways of thinking about work match yours? It's worth trying out - a different experience for sure. I suppose the risk is not so much in Marketing as it is in tech or process oriented jobs. Your ethnic background and language skills should help you understand the Japanese consumer market..
- The Japanese yen is a losing horse at the moment. Nobody can predict the future with certainty. Can they pay you in USD? If its the company I think it is, I think the answer is no.
- The most important point. FANG companies are highly overrated. Will you be happy working late hours like your Japanese colleagues? I speak from experience. It sucked badly. I never want to work for a FANG company again. I'd work for a small company and even earn a little less for mental peace.
Only you know what's good for you. It's not that moving to Japan is bad for you or not fun, it just sounds you are on a successful career course in the USA and are tempted to move to a country because of your heritage and your love for it? It happens to us non-Japanese too ;-)
Worst case scenario: you move to Japan, aren't happy, can you move back with an internal transfer to their US branch and resume your life?
I hope that helps.
I can contribute the following thoughts:
- Are you familiar with work culture in Japan? It seems your communication with Japanese workers would not be an issue but would their ways of thinking about work match yours? It's worth trying out - a different experience for sure. I suppose the risk is not so much in Marketing as it is in tech or process oriented jobs. Your ethnic background and language skills should help you understand the Japanese consumer market..
- The Japanese yen is a losing horse at the moment. Nobody can predict the future with certainty. Can they pay you in USD? If its the company I think it is, I think the answer is no.
- The most important point. FANG companies are highly overrated. Will you be happy working late hours like your Japanese colleagues? I speak from experience. It sucked badly. I never want to work for a FANG company again. I'd work for a small company and even earn a little less for mental peace.
Only you know what's good for you. It's not that moving to Japan is bad for you or not fun, it just sounds you are on a successful career course in the USA and are tempted to move to a country because of your heritage and your love for it? It happens to us non-Japanese too ;-)
Worst case scenario: you move to Japan, aren't happy, can you move back with an internal transfer to their US branch and resume your life?
I hope that helps.
possiblegnostic
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@gingermarie Conduct business in us and live in Japan, it better to earn usd than jpy to maintain live in japan
@gingermarie Japan does not allow dual citizenship. At some point, you may receive pressure to renounce one of them here.
@gingermarie How did you dual citizen when Japan required to renounce other citizenship
manishk012
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@seobts02 EVERY SINGLE TIME someone chimes in with this. Please do a little research if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
If she was dual citizen at birth she doesn’t need to renounce. She only needs to choose a nationality and if she chooses Japan then she should “endeavor” to renounce but there is no penalty if she never succeeds.
If she was dual citizen at birth she doesn’t need to renounce. She only needs to choose a nationality and if she chooses Japan then she should “endeavor” to renounce but there is no penalty if she never succeeds.
faithfound
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@manishk012 Renounce= choice in reality. You lose one nationality. There are also penalties. You can also lose your Japan passport in some cases. Lack of current active enforcement does not make it legal.
@faithfound
What penalties have been applied to someone who is dual from birth and chooses to retain Japanese citizenship but fails to abdicate others?
What penalties have been applied to someone who is dual from birth and chooses to retain Japanese citizenship but fails to abdicate others?
faithfound
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@ethzz Using the term “Born in to it duals” is misleading and unnecessary. As holding dual citizenship ends at a certain age and you can’t apply for it as there is no way to do so, you can simply call it Dual Citizenship.
As for penalties, you are completely wrong, by a long shot. You may want to read the newspaper once in a while.
As for penalties, you are completely wrong, by a long shot. You may want to read the newspaper once in a while.
@faithfound So give us an example from the newspaper of someone who was born with dual citizenship and suffered a penalty; should be easy since you seemingly read said papers "once in a while".
Edit to address your edit:
Under Japanese law and the enforcement of said laws, whether or not you were born with rights to dual citizenship or had to specifically apply and be approved for it is of material significance, so saying whether it's from birth and not just from before age of majority is the correct level of specificity and an important factor.
Edit to address your edit:
Under Japanese law and the enforcement of said laws, whether or not you were born with rights to dual citizenship or had to specifically apply and be approved for it is of material significance, so saying whether it's from birth and not just from before age of majority is the correct level of specificity and an important factor.
@faithfound I haven't been in touch with it recently, but the JALT Bilingual N-SIG consists of an awful lot of people like our family--with dual national kids--born into it--dating back to our era ('89 and '93), and both before and since.
There has never been a single instance of someone being forced to choose, nor any instance of a penalty.
Yes, some have chosen, but that has been by choice, not under any pressure, and certainly not with the threat of a penalty.
There has never been a single instance of someone being forced to choose, nor any instance of a penalty.
Yes, some have chosen, but that has been by choice, not under any pressure, and certainly not with the threat of a penalty.