The other day I asked a friend of mine, a Frenchman who is the executive officer of a large, well‐known company, what were his first impressions of Japanese people and society. “For me,” he said, “Japanese society is full of contradictions. One day I saw Japanese golfers almost running around the golf course, and this fitted the descriptions of Japanese people I had heard and read. But another time, when I was leaving Japan from Narita International Airport, I found that the Japanese official at the emigration counter was doing his work very, very slowly.”

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