Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies

Well, Japan hasn't done too well in the software world over the last 30 years.

Meanwhile American software companies and employees are both infamously disloyal and have done quite well.

Is that a cause, though? I can see both as being consequences of the sheer amount of money sloshing around in the Silicon Valley. It generally helps things because there’s just so much resources to tap. It also helps employees getting poached with better salaries and compensation. But it does not mean that it can be replicated that way in another country.

You're right. It's not that disloyalty necessarily enables better software but that, apparently, loyalty is not a requirement.

It can also be true that the work culture in Japan stymies effective modern software development. I've heard anecdotes to this effect but it doesn't seem like something you could easily measure.