1. Toil
It is common knowledge that the Japanese are hard workers. The average working hours of employees in Japan is 2450 hours / year, is very high compared to America (1957 hours / year), UK (1911 hours / year), Germany (1870 hours / year), and France (1680 hours / year) .
An employee in Japan could produce a car in 9 days, while workers in other states require 47 days to make the car worth the same.
A worker may be said Japan could do the work normally done by 5-6 people. Home quickly is something that can be said "somewhat embarrassing" in Japan, and indicates that the employee was included "not required" by the company.
2. Shame
Shame is the ancestral culture and the Japanese people from generation to generation. Harakiri (suicide by sticking a knife into the stomach) becomes a ritual since the era of the samurai, when they were defeated and the battle.
Log into the modern world, the discourse changed a little to the phenomenon of "resign" for officials (ministers, politicians, etc.) involved the issue of corruption or feel like a failure duties.
Possible negative effects are the children of elementary, junior high, sometimes suicidal, because its value is ugly or not the next grade.
Embarrassed also the Japanese people prefer to choose a detour rather than interfere with the driver behind the cut line in the middle of the road. They are ashamed of their environment when they break rules or norms that have become common agreement.
3. Scrimp
The Japanese have a zest for life-saving in everyday life. Excessive anti-consumerism attitude is seen in various areas of life.
In the early days of starting life in Japan, maybe we are slightly surprised by the number of Japanese people crowded the supermarket at about 19:30.
Quizzed had inquired, it has become commonplace that the supermarkets in Japan will cut prices up to half in about half an hour before closing. As it is known that Japan's Supermarket in the average closed at 20:00.
4. Loyalty
Loyalty to make a career in a company's systems running and cleanly. Slightly different from the system in America and Europe, are very rare Japanese who move jobs.
They usually stay in one or two companies until retirement. This may be the implications of Industry in Japan that most would only accept fresh graduates, which they then train and educate themselves in accordance with the field plots (core business) companies.
5. Innovation
Japan is not the inventor, but the Japanese have an edge in finding people to mix and then market it in the form of a demand by the public.
Interesting to read the story of Akio Morita, who developed the legendary Sony Walkman. Tape cassette is not invented by Sony, the patent is owned by Phillip Electronics.
But to successfully develop and membundling portable model as a product that is booming for decades was Akio Morita, founder and CEO of Sony at that time.
Until 1995, there were more than 300 models of Walkman was born and the total production reached 150 million products.
Mechanical assembly of four-wheeled vehicles are also not created by the Japanese, his patent owned by Americans. But it turns out Japan for its innovation vehicle assembly industry can develop a faster and cheaper.
6. Abstinence surrender
History proves that the Japanese including a resilient nation and unyielding. Decades under the Tokugawa empire that covers the access to overseas, Japan is very behind in technology.
When the restoration of the Meiji (Meiji Ishin) came, the Japanese quickly adapt and become a fast-learner. Poverty is not natural resources to make Japan surrender.
Not only the importer of petroleum, coal, iron ore and wood, even 85% of Japan's energy sources come from other countries including Indonesia. They say that Indonesia stops the supply of oil, then 30% of Japan be pitch dark.
Series of disasters occurred in 1945, starting from the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan followed with a losing war, and coupled with the presence of a major earthquake in Tokyo, Japan was not discharged.
In the next few years Japan has managed to build the automotive industry and even the fast train (Shinkansen).
Probably pretty amazing how Konosuke Matsushita whose business was destroyed and almost out of the business of electronic equipment in 1945 are still able to crawl, start from scratch to build the industry to become a business empire in the next era.
Akio Morita was also originally to be laughed at when offering products Tapenya small cassette into various other countries. But eventually a legend with the Sony Walkman.
What is also quite unique that the science and theory in which people must learn from this failure began to be formulated in Japan with shippaigaku name (the science of failure).
7. Reading Culture
Do not be surprised if you come to Japan and into Densha (electric train), most of the passengers both children and adults are reading books or newspapers.
No matter sitting or standing, many of which utilize the Densha time to read. Many publishers are beginning to make man-ga (comic pictorial) curriculum materials for both elementary school, junior high and high school.
Lessons of History, Biology, Language, etc. are presented with interesting people who make the higher interest in reading. Read the Japanese culture is also supported by the speed in the process of translation of foreign books (english, french, german, etc.).
The legend says that the legend translation of foreign books was started in 1684, as the construction of the institute of translation and continued to grow until the modern era. Usually the Japanese translation of the book is available in a few weeks since its foreign books published.
8. Cooperation Group
Culture in Japan is not very accommodating work too is individualistic. Including claims of employment, usually reserved for team or group.
This phenomenon not only in the world of work, the condition of the campus with a research lab like that too, do the tasks subjects are usually in the form of the group.
Working in groups may be one of the greatest strengths of the Japanese. There is an anecdote that "a professor of Japanese people to be inferior to one American professor, but 10 of the American professor will not be able to beat 10 people are flocking Japanese professor."
Consensus agreement or often called "rin-gi" is a ritual in the group. Strategic decisions must be discussed in the "rin-gi".
9. Independent
From an early age children are trained to be independent. Even a kindergarten child should have brought three large bags containing clothes, bento (lunch packet), dressing shoes, books, towels and a large bottle of drink that hangs around his neck.
In Yochien every child is trained to bring their own equipment, and are responsible for their own belongings. Remove the high school and enter college most of do not ask for costs to parents.
Usually they rely on part-time work for school fees and daily life. Even if the money ran out, they "borrow" money to the parents who will they return in the next month.
10. Keep the Tradition Respect for Parents
Technological developments and economic, did not make the Japanese lose tradition and culture. Culture married women not to work there and live up to today.
Cultural sorry still a reflex of the Japanese. If one day you ride a bike in Japan and hit a pedestrian, then do not be surprised if we hit instead of apologizing first.
Until now the Japanese are relatively avoid saying "no" if it got an offer from someone else. So we must be careful in association with the Japanese because the "O" not necessarily "yes" to the Japanese.
Agriculture is an ancestral tradition and an important asset in Japan. Tough competition due to entry of rice of Thailand and the U.S. are cheap, did not deter the Japanese government's measures to protect farmers.
Reportedly soil cultivation get significant tax reductions, including a few other incentives for those who still survive in the world of agriculture. Japanese agriculture is one of the highest in the world.
