Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia are known for working hard. But Japan is also an East Asian culture, and its people "are just as hard-working as Chinese." So there is not much room to succeed in Japan by hard work alone. Huang Tien-tsai says, "But there is one good thing about Japanese society.
華僑在東南亞國家奮鬥，最為人稱道的是勤奮辛勞，但日本也是標準的東亞文化，它的人民「跟中國人一樣勤勞」，要在日本單憑勤奮創業，空間有限，黃天才說。