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Thank you. That is very interesting. Certainly in America we would not hire a PhD to perform simple programming tasks. But some jobs for which individuals with only bachelors degrees are not qualified and cannot perform well. So there is definitely a sort of partition. And although these higher-level jobs are likely fewer, there are also fewer candidates because fewer people are wiling to work towards the degree.

So this kind of system is not present in Japan? I have heard that there is a lot of on-the-job training in Japan, so I suppose it is possible that the required skills may be gained at work rather than in school.