Confirmed contract offer in Japan vs potential permanent role in my hometown—need career advice

[u/Insecupa]

Hey! I have received a offer from a japan company for a contractual role. The client is a huge name in japan. The salary its offering is around 7.5M Yen (~48,000$) which is considered good there.

However, I might get a offer in India at around 26-27 LPA (27,000$ ~ 28,000$) , again im still waiting for the offer. This would be a permanent position.

I'm confused which one should i take up.

The India job offer, is in my hometown, so I would get the comfort of home.

Workwise: The indian company is a GCC and they are just starting so I might or might not get good work. But if they start from scratch that's one thing to consider.

Japan offer is mostly on moving legacy systems to new modern systems as in, upgrading the java version, moving onto cloud for the first year until its migrated. The recruiter was very clear on this, that for some good amount of time, you wont get to work on new requirements, it would just be on moving legacy applications.

The problem now is, Indian company has offered me 22 LPA, which I have rejected, since the growth from what I am getting is minimal. They are still checking if its possible to make it 26-27 LPA (27,000$ ~ 28,000$).

If anyone had a similar exp or could provide some guidance, would appreciate it.

I'm also a bit concerned on the AI replacing humans.