japanese culture– tag –

In terms of ambiguity, I believe Japanese people are second to none in the world. Majority vote is rarely adopted in a company meeting for example. Even company representatives don't like to be seen as imposing their opinions. A consensus, decision, etc. are made ambiguously in most cases.

【Although this may be just nostalgia for monster cars】 Nissan GT-R (R32) and Mercedes Benz 500E. These monster cars were born in around the same time (around 1990). Such mosters will never appear on the market again in this ecological ...

Many Japanese people may forget the original meaning of a summer festival, but I don't think that's a serious problem. What is more important is many people gather and enjoy a summer festival. It's a good opportunity to develop relationships.

An office environment well reflects a social structure. A typical Japanese office environment is hierarchical and cooperative (less privacy), which is completely different from the environment provided by remote work. Let's see how it has been changed in Japan in the post-Corona era.

They always bring up a gap in wages between large companies and SME in order to claim the low productivity of SME, but I think the cause and effect are reversed in their argument. Large companies in a better position in competition pay more salaries to their employees. Their better salaries make them look better in productivity. I've worked for large companies before and found SME are more desperate to increase productivity because it's a more serious life-or-death issue for SME.

【Japanese chopsticks are unique】 One of the difficulties I have to face when going abroad is table manners. Among other things, it's difficult for me to eat without chopsticks. How can you eat a lettuce salad only with a fork? I'm alwa...

【A hardship destined for Japanese workers】 You won't read to the end of this article because the average human attention span is down to only eight seconds. It's one second shorter than that of goldfish. I remember I read many articles...

The worker ant theory has become known by many people recently, but do you know why 20% of ants or people become lazy? It's for making swarms or groups resilient. Lazy ants or people are not useless but important reserved power in an emergency.

It is sometimes thought to be impolite in Japan to open up a gift in front of the gift giver, to say nothing of tearing off wrapping paper. Mind you, it’s not a religious taboo, and won’t be impolite if you ask for permission beforehand. I guess there are two reasons for the rule unique to Japan.

Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's day, etc. These events are very popular in Japan, though the percentage of the Christian population in Japan is only 1%. You can see many different cultures are mixed up and changed into Japanese culture.