Well, many of those BigCorps simply went out of business over the years. Kodak in Rochester was a pretty good bet until it wasn't. Not so much culture as business realities.
Japan has been more stable in that regard. More stability but probably also fewer real opportunities.
Kodak actually spun out their chemical company quite a while before things really went south with film. The real problem was that Kodak had a huge film-related consumables business and, to a first approximation, that just went away.
Japan has been more stable in that regard. More stability but probably also fewer real opportunities.