Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.
Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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