Many years ago, I went to Tokyo for a meeting and the company arranged for a Director of theirs to take me out for supper (I asked to try the poison fish they eat).
The person with me did not want to even taste his fish, so I ate both while he drank almost a full bottle of whiskey. By the time I finished eating, he looked drunk...and he then told me that he envies us Europeans, as we can change companies whenever we want. He said that if he were to look for another job, he would lose the one he has while also not being offered a job by anyone else.
I wonder if it is still the same.