When I started my career in the late 1990s, my employer encouraged us to adopt a global mindset to cope with Japan’s recession, the so-called “lost decade.” By 2000, the words “global” or “globalization” were used as keywords—and sometimes as buzzwords—for surviving the upcoming millennium, followed by the dot-com bubble. My coworkers and I were pressured to raise TOEIC scores, learn SWOT analysis, MECE, and other terms of logical thinking, abandon the obsolete Japanese work style, and get accustomed to the global—in many cases, American—way of thinking.