It’s not bull! Take your head out of your butt and you will see.
Source?
I have a source, but all you have to do is google “Japan median income” and “Japan GDP per capita” and you’ll see that they’re about the same.
Lmao those are bullshit graphs made by Roy Ngerng. The income between Japan, Korea and Taiwan are near identical now.
They have nothing to do with Roy Ngerng.
You don’t know the difference between mean and median, that’s why. The means are near identical.
According to Salary Explorer, a typical Japanese employee earns an average monthly salary of approximately 515,000 JPY (or about 3,794 USD).
The median salary in Japan for 2024 is 471,000 JPY (3,470 USD) per month.
Median income is $16K in Taiwan. It’s about $40K in Japan.
Your own graph shows Japan’s median income to be 89% of mean income. 
That’s gotta be embarassing.
That means both are very low, and these are before tax so it’s atrocious. Tax rate is at least 20% in Japan and close to nonexistent in that bracket in Taiwan.
Taiwan’s government salary figure doesn’t include managers and executives and the reports are only based on base salary. Household income tells you all you need to know. Japan’s household income is lower than Taiwan’s and the gap is widening.
Where in Japan have you been to see? You have not lived in Taiwan so how can you compare?, a lot of what you write about Taiwan is BS.
I think for Taiwanese, most food in Japan is too salty, different tastes as I prefer salt or sugar taste. In Southern Taiwan Japanese foods are often quite sweet to meet local tastes (I had a few people from North of Taiwan tell me KHH food is also sweet)
Actually, I usually eat food saltier than they come with. I bring a salt shaker with me for this reason, because most Taiwanese food is bland as heck. I thought American food is often too sweet though, and Americanized Chinese food is often oversweet.
I think I’d like to go to hiroshima just to look at that partially bombed out building where the nuke detonated. I think it’s preserved as a monument.
Taiwanese don’t use salt in their cooking, so any food in any other country is too salty for them. Not just Japan.
yes, it is. Its one top places to visit. I recently also visited bombed out church in Berlin, both good reminders are war and what peace can do (Both Berlin and Hiroshima have been rebuilt and I like both places, not sure you like modern Berlin)
I been to Berlin for a few months. I like it a lot. It’s also cheap to live in. I haven’t visited any bombed out monument but I’ve been to the Holocaust memorial and a concentration camp near Berlin. That place gave me nightmares and that’s not even an extermination camp.
I saw that church in Dresden and they left one wall original intentionally to show the damage.
Numerous historical buildings in Germany has bullet holes all over it.
I visited here
Hiroshima
I’m already seeing shopping malls advertising salary of about 40,000 a month as a sales associate. 10 years ago you got 24,000 a month and that’s the MOST they’d give you (and you aren’t getting raises either).
If you’re a developer, the wages in Taiwan are essentially what McDonalds pays when I lived in Hawaii. Be sure to have a remote western job.
Because Taiwan doesn’t do software. They suck at it. Look at websites for many Taiwanese organization. You can’t expect them to pay well for developing low level software do they?
But EE’s and semiconductor on the other hand, they’re paid very well.
Costs have gone up by about that much too (rent, food) so not really getting ahead much. At least they got a raise though