I am a regular seishain at a company, and neither my foreignness nor my English ability play any part whatsoever in my work. They were handicaps to my being employed, if anything. And I don't work for an international/multinational company. I am employed under precisely the same terms and conditions and perform precisely the same tasks that my Japanese coworkers do. And I'm the only non-Japanese person there. So I'll kindly ask to be excluded from "every single one of us" and ask you to consider painting Japan with a little narrower brush.