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To: Stitch who wrote (2360)	2/24/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 9980

Stitch, you know, the Japanese are pretty good at making "bold moves" and long term planning. It might be time they start and strategise how to create a culture that will keep all the great virtues of Japanese culture and heritage, while adjusting it to a future world which is, shall I say, classless (not in my life time), has open structures and is fully transparent. If they do not plan for such a transition they might end up with the worst of both their and western cultures rather than the best of those cultures. Unfortunately, I do not have a solution to the problem, but why should there not be a cultural MITI doing what MITI is has done in the field of industrialization. After all, if they need not fear external influences because they have devised means to digest these within their own framework, the xenophobia will not have a raison d'etre. Zeev

To: Stitch who wrote (2360)	2/25/1998 10:06:00 AM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

At the root of everything in Japan EVERYTHING is senoirity. In every cultural and business endeavor I have ever had in Japan the younger people defer to the older people. The old perople have the power, the young people wait to grow old. The problem is that the older people are mostly mediocrities and time servers who got where they did by doing nothing much and never rocking the boat. Thre is not a lot of vision in the generation that came of age from 1945-1954 period. These people are, generally, scared to death. They worked hard for what they've got an they aren't going to do anything to jeapordize this. They re not going to do literally anything. Time and again I have heard Japanese say,"When I reach their age I am not going to go down this old, tired road. "