It’s natural to see locally hired foreign managers becoming the majority in a few years. We can’t just take our Japanese brains there like we’ve been doing for a long time.

If they are local hires they are probably not foreign, eh? The company in that country is foreign. This is the mindset that keeps Japan from globalization.

We can’t just take our Japanese brains there like we’ve been doing for a long time.

Uh, duh, this just occurred to him? Has he never heard of the first rule of managing a multi-national enterprise -- think globally, but act locally? Especially since "Japanese brains" generally only understand the J-Inc. business model, which does not translate to any other market.

Multinationals are so called for a reason.

With these organizations, the attitude is more what can HQ teach you, less what can we learn from you?