附註:The cultural collision -- Tate Shakai: living and working in a vertical society -- Wa: peace and harmony in an up-down world -- Kaisha: the Japanese company -- Manejimento: aspects of Japanese company management -- Nippongo: the magnificent barrier -- Yamato Damashii: the spirit of Japan -- Matome: summing up -- The Japanese way versus the Western way: doing business on a permanently tilted playing field.