Sind die Zeit und das Geld, die japanische Eltern in die Ausbildung ihrer Kinder investieren, im Hinblick auf die späteren Gehälter kosteneffektiv? Ein akademischer Forscher berechnet die Zahlen.

Guess it depends on who you compare them to, other Japanese? then yeah maybe. Foreigners? absolutely not. I went to high school here back in the day, and I don’t think I exaggerate when I say that they probably spent more time in the books studying that year then I have studied my whole life.

Was at a reunion 20 years later, some had gone to the top universities after that, Tokyo university, Keio, Kyoto university etc. And from our talks I was obviously making more than all of them. Honestly I think just putting all of that wasted time into getting good at English, then work abroad for a couple of years then coming back working for international companies would get them further ahead than any top university could.

The Japanese I know that are earning the most are either half Japanese with native English or fully Japanese with international background having gone to average universities or non at all.

Then they become depressed salary man til they retire at 65.Its so depressing.