Japan Inc No Longer Entirely Bases Salary on Seniority

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Mariko ŌI 大井 真理子, Japan Seeks Alternatives to Its Pay System. BBC, Mar 22, 2016.
http://www.bbc.com/news/35868599

Quote:

"It is standard practice for businesses to offer a low remuneration package to fresh graduates, who are then trained on-the-job. Even today, the average starting salary in Japan is roughly 2.5 million Japanese yen or $22,000. In the UK it is £28,000 or $40,000. In America, the average starting salary is higher at $50,000.

Japan Inc started job cut since 1990s: "Without the guarantee of lifelong employment, younger workers started to look for other options instead of accepting a low starting salary with the first company that would hire them.

"But CyberAgent, despite overturning one pillar of Japanese corporate culture [salary based on seniority, not performance], is keen to retain the other - the job for life - after seeing a high turnover rate.

Note:
(a) Regarding quotation 1. The link leads to the website of National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which is considered authoritative. The highest pay  for 2015 college graduates went to petroleum engineering, above $80,000 a year, which surely comes down this year.

(b) "Toshiaki MATSUMOTO 松本 利明[,] director at the Society for Human Resource Management"

Japan Society for Human Resource Management (JSHRM) 日本人材マネジメント協会 --where the katakana is for "management" -- is an affiliate with Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So ... Resource_Management
(Formation 1948; Headquarters  Alexandria, Virginia, USA)

, which the Japanese affiliate translates as 全米人材マネジメント協会.

(c) "Tetsuhito Soyama, executive manager of human resources at CyberAgent"
(i) CyberAgent, Inc  株式会社サイバーエージェント
(ii) 人事統括本部 曽山 哲人
(iii) Japanese English dictionary:
* tō-katsu-hon-bu 統括本部 【とうかつほんぶ】 (n): "general headquarters"
   ^ tō-katsu 統括 【とうかつ】 (n): "control; supervision"