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Wow. Choosing your wife for you? Who and where was this company?!

My experience with a traditionally Japanese run megacorp/zaibatsu in the heart of Tokyo is much more like a traditional western company. The minutia of HR is very Japanese and hard to get your head around, but the broad strokes of salary/bonus/non monetary benefits (I had to look up what pecuniary means) is basically the same.

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I don’t think “choosing” is the right word, it’s more like providing the opportunity to meet someone with drinking events, goukon etc. At least if his company is like the ones I’ve seen.

The thread is definitely making a mountain out of a mole hill. Its providing networking opportunities, not selecting an actual person to be married off.

And it's an invitation to a sexual harassment or discrimination lawsuit in a USA corporation.

The anecdote in question occurs in Japan.

And added social pressure if one doesn't eventually move forward (this would be applied to anyone not marrying). Granted, you can somewhat see this in the US but on a much less official level. I've personally noticed it as I have aged but haven't looked into marrying or having children. Employees who have been around even longer than I have mentioned that I'll be making it harder to move upward, though no one will every officially put that on paper.

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