1. Hard Worker
It is the secret that the Japanese nation is working hard.
The average employee work hours in Japan is 2450 hours / year, very high compared with the United States (1957 hours / year), UK (1911 hours / year), Germany (1870 hours / year), and France (1680 hours / year). An employee in Japan can produce a car in 9 days, while officials in other countries require 47 days to make the car worth the same. A Japanese worker can be said to do the work usually done by 5-6 people. Home quickly is something that can be said "a bit shame "in Japanese, and shows that the employee including "not required" by the company.
2. Shame
Shame is the cultural and ancestral heredity nation of Japan. Suicide (suicide with a knife thrust to the stomach) to the ritual since the samurai, that is when they lose and fight. Log In to the modern world, the perception has changed a little to the phenomenon "draw self "for officials (ministry, politicians, etc.) involved in the problem corruption, or failed to perform its duty feel. The effect may be negative are children of elementary school, junior high school who sometimes suicide, because the value is ugly or does not increase the class. Also embarrassed because, more Japanese people happy choose a detour from the drivers behind the cut line in the middle of the road. They are ashamed of environment when they violate rules or norms that already a general agreement.
3.Economical
Japanese people have the spirit in daily life sparingly. Anti attitude excessive consumerism is visible in many areas of life. In the early start of life in Japan, I had great surprise to the many people shopping in the crowded Japanese at the supermarket around 19:30 hours. A careful critical, the has become a regular supermarket in Japan that will be cut up to half price at the time about half an hour before closing. As known in the Japanese supermarket that average lose to the at 20:00.
4. Loyalty
Loyalty system to make a career in running a company and is the neat. With a slightly different system in the United States and Europe, Japan is very rare that people moved jobs. They usually stay on one or two companies until retirement. This may be the implications of industry in Japan is just like most receive a fresh graduate, then they and the students themselves latih
accordance with the field garapan (core business) companies.
5. Innovation
Japan not the inventor of the nation, but people have a surplus in Japan meracik findings and then the people in the form of a sought by the community. Interesting to read the story Akio
Morita of Sony to develop Walkman is a legend. Cassete Tape not found by Sony, patennya company owned by Phillip Electronics. But the successful development and succeed as a portable model of the product during the boom tens of years is Akio Morita, founder and CEO of Sony at that time. Until 1995, there were more than 300 models walkman born and the number of total production reached 150 million products. Assembly techniques are also four-wheeled vehicles are not created the Japan, trade mark is owned by the United States. But Japan was the
innovation able to develop the vehicle assembly industry is more fast and cheap.
6. Nothing Surrender
History proves that the Japanese nation, including the resistance and abstinence surrender. Tens of years under the Tokugawa empire close all access to overseas, Japan is very
behind in technology. When the Meiji restoration (Meiji ishin) come, the Japanese quickly adapt and become a fast-learner. Poverty of natural resources also does not make Japan surrender. No only importer petroleum, coal, iron and wood seeds, even 85% of Japan's energy comes from other countries including Indonesian. Indonesia it is reported that the supply of petroleum,
then 30% of Japan's darkness will be a disaster occurs in the sequence 1945, starting from the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, followed lose the war with Japan, and ditambahi with the earthquake big in Tokyo. In fact Japan is not exhausted. In recent years Japan is the next successful build the automotive industry and even also fast trains (shinkansen). May be quite incredible how Matsushita Konosuke that businesses were destroyed and almost lose from
electronic business equipment in 1945 are still able to crawl, start from zero to build the industry so that a business in the kingdom kekinian . Akio Morita also initially laughable when people
offer products that tiny Cassete Tapenya to various other countries. But eventually, the Sony Walkman to. Which is also quite unique that knowledge and theory in which people must learn from this failure formulated in Japan began with the name shippaigaku (science failure). Some day I will be peeled more about this .
7. Reading Culture
Do not surprised if you come to Japan and into densha (train electricity), most of the passengers both children and adults are reading books or newspapers. Do not care to sit or standing, many who have used the time to read densha. Many publishers began to create a man-ga (image comic) to curriculum materials both elementary schools, junior high and high school.
Subject History, Biology, English, etc. that are presented with create interest in reading the higher the community. I have previously discussed problems of education in the comics this blog. Reading culture Japanese people also supported by the speed in the translation process foreign books (english, france, germany, etc.). Perhaps say Translation legend foreign books have been started in the year 1684, as the Institute for Translation and hold to develop modern era. Usually Japanese translation book already available in several books since sunday foreign published.
8. Coorperation Group
Culture in Japan do not accommodate the work-work that is too are individualistik. Including claims of employment, usually is for the team or group. This phenomenon not only in the world of work, the condition of the campus with a research lab is also like that, the task of subjects is also usually in the form of the group. Working in groups may be one of the biggest strength of the Japanese. There anekdot that "1 the Japanese professor will be less with one the American professor, the professor is only 10 United States will not can overcome the 10 people who collect Japanese professor. " Agreement or consensus is often called the "rin-gi" is a ritual in the group. Strategic decisions must be discussed in the "gi-rin".
9.Be YourSelf
Since early age children are trained to self. Irsyad, my child is most had felt the incoming kindergarten (Yochien) in Japan. He must bring 3 large bags containing clothes change, Bento (food packing lunch), replace the shoes, books, towels, and a bottle of the drink hang on his neck. Yochien in every child be trained to carry equipment itself, and is responsible for own items
alone. Release of high school and entering college is not nearly the majority of ask for the cost to parents. Friends, what I used in the contemporary Saitama University rely on part time work for school fees and daily life. Even if the money runs out, they "borrow" the money to parents that they will return in the next month.
10. Keep the tradition
Technology and economic development, Japan does not make a nation loss of tradition and culture. Culture of women who married not to work there and still live to this day. Culture apologize reflek is still a Japanese. If a day you ride a bicycle in Japan and hit pedestrian, then do not surprised if we were even a tabrak apologize ahead. Until now the Japanese are relatively avoid saying "no" to When people get a bid from another. So we must be careful in association with the Japanese people as "O" not necessarily "yes" for the Agriculture is the Japanese tradition of ancestor and important asset in Japanese. Competition because of the entrance of Thailand and the United States cheap, does not reduce the steps the Japanese government to
protect the farmer. People say the land that made the land agriculture have a significant tax reduction, including some incentives for those who still survive in the world agriculture. Japanese agriculture is one of the highest in the world.
