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転職, and the move that stopped being a betrayal
Changing employers was a genuine liability in Japan within living memory: lifetime employment meant pay and status rose with 年次, so a mid-career hire arrived with no seniority and was read as someone who had failed somewhere. That has changed fast. Mid-career hiring is now normal in most industries, agencies advertise openly, and a move inside the same 同業 is the commonest kind — which is also why 円満退社 matters so much more than it used to. You will meet your old colleagues across a table. What has not changed is the sequence: you tell your manager first, you say nothing to anyone until it is settled, and you spend your last day thanking people one at a time.