3patio111y"Open Tokyo engineering offices and give them material responsibility for
products that ship globally" might be one of them. There are many, many reasons
that companies don't do that, and the biggest one is that it is hard and exposes
the company to an internal language barrier, but all are solvable issues. (Also
the market price of engineering in Tokyo is far less than the market price of
engineering in many countries that U.S. startups happily put engineering
offices.)
What’s something actionable US startups could do to help bring to the US the best parts of Japanese culture?