[Info-vax] [OT] Japan, was: Re: HP short of ideas - hiring dancers for inspiration

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-23, Bill Gunshannon <bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>
> And then they wonder why American business is in the crapper.
>
> It's a lot like "Agile" and all this other business crap from Japan
> that has been foisted on American companies.  They are still fighting
> the war, just changed tactics. "What", you say.  Look at what Japanese
> methods got them.  Fukushima.  And now we think we should use the same
> business methods?
>

Actually Fukushima showed us something else. It showed the average Japanese
person in the street acting with dignity and honour in the face of disaster.

The Japanese victims brought great honour upon themselves and their country
as a result of the way they conducted themselves during that disaster.
It's a example some other cultures on this planet could learn from.

There were some incidents to report, but given how rare those incidents
were actually made the individual incidents newsworthy.

BTW, it's perfectly ok to criticise current cultures if you base those
criticisms on facts still valid today. It's wrong however to take values
common during a war in the middle of the last century and just state
without evidence that those values still exist today.

Simon.

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