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Wages are determined by supply and demand...
scenario a:
wages too low:
Companies see the low wages and see potential profit and enter the market. More jobs are offered->fewer workers avaible with needed skill->higher wages to get workers
scenario b:
wages are too high:
Companies drop out of business->more unemployment->lower wages because many people would work for less
Do the math yourself
A nice way too see in which state an economy is in the present is by looking at the unemployment rates.
If you think the wages are too low, then either advice EJapan as a place to make profit or start your own business and help to raise the demand for workers.
And this was only the most simple explanation why your statement is false, if you aren´t convinced I can explain further.

Scenario C: Japan has boatloads of two clickers who don't search for new jobs and General Managers who price products as high as they can get away with. The two clickers don't watch the market and Japan has such a low active population that pretty much everybody who wants to be a GM already is one so your scenario A won't happen. Your Scenario B sort of just happened in a lot of markets but it's mainly because the foolish GMs were the driving forces behind their own demise. They drove the prices in their market to unrealistic lows and didn't keep wages low to go with it.

I have run the numbers on several of the markets in Japan and know exactly what profits look like right now. You throw oversimplified logic at me that fails to actually take what *actually happens in eJapan* and try to act all condescending. Stick to posting from JC btw.

I dont get the problem with your "scenario c"
"Two clickers" who don´t search for new jobs are either happy with their wages or simply aren´t interested enough in this game to care about their wages and if they care so little they surely won´t read this article.
As your comment about everybody being a GM who wants to be:
As long as there is profit to be made, more people will try to participate. Even if the EJapanese would be content with the situation and would more likely work than open a company, which I can´t believe...if there is money to be made, it will be made... there would be foreign companies who would try to enter the market, I mean we are talking about a game market with no barriers to enter.
Regarding my scenario b:
If it happens this means that the wages surely aren´t too high and we are on a good way to an equilibrium in the market.
Lower prices means deflation which is an increase in wages.
I maybe don´t have the numbers, but it is the economical logic that either case a or b has to happen until we reach a temporary equilibrium.
And I am no damn clone char, thank you very much >.<

"Current prices on the markets here in Japan leave plenty of room for higher wages than those offered on the Job Market."
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That's rather a simplistic view.

Just because you don't rip your employees off doesn't mean that the other companies out there don't rip theirs off. Look at what companies are charging and what the wages they offer -on the Job Market- are. Run the math through a calc. If you ran your company in a slightly more volatile manner to where you aren't sticking to a strict profit margin, you could pick up employees off of the Job Market and milk them for absolute min(their pay)/max(what you sell for) values.

A specific example of the "simplistic view" I am bringing up with this article is Oligagnon's recently purchased Q4 housing company. He is offering wages *well above* the norms in Japan and still isn't getting people to bite. They simply don't look for a different job. Those people are working at a lower wage than they could get with Oli and their employer undoubtedly is selling at as high of a sale price as they possibly can.

Plug in several of the *cheapest* cost products from companies of several different markets and run the wages *slightly above* those on the job market before deeming what I say to be simplistic.

"A specific example of the "simplistic view" I am bringing up with this article is Oligagnon's recently purchased Q4 housing company. He is offering wages *well above* the norms in Japan and still isn't getting people to bite. They simply don't look for a different job. Those people are working at a lower wage than they could get with Oli and their employer undoubtedly is selling at as high of a sale price as they possibly can."
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Did you also factor in the gift the employees received? and perhaps the fact that global price for houses are slicing down sharply as well?