are so difficult to realize in Japan.term orientation
The long term orientation dimension is closely related to the teachings of Confucius and can be interpreted as dealing with society s search for virtue, the extent to which a society shows a pragmatic future-oriented perspective rather than a conventional historical short-term point of view.
Japan is one of the long term oriented societies. Japanese see their life as a very short moment in a long history of mankind. From this perspective, some kind of fatalism is not strange to the Japanese. You do your best in your life time and that is all what you can do. Notion of the one and only almighty God is not familiar to Japanese. People live their lives guided by virtues and practical good examples. In corporate Japan, you see long term orientation in the constantly high rate of investment in R amp; D even in economically difficult times, higher own capital rate, priority to steady growth of market share rather than to a quarterly profit, and so on. They all serve the durability of the companies. The idea behind it is that the companies are not here to make money every quarter for the shareholders, but to serve the stake holders and society at large for many generations to come (eg Matsuhista).
Polychronic/Monochronic
Monochronic time means doing one thing at a time. It assumes careful planning and scheduling and is a familiar Western approach that appears in disciplines such as «time man-agement». Monochronic people tend also to be low context.
In polychronic cultures, human interaction is valued over time and material things, leading to a lesser concern for «getting things done» - they do get done, but more in their own time. Aboriginal and Native Americans have typical polychronic cultures, where «talking stick» meetings can go on for as long as somebody has something to say. Polychronic people tend also to be high context.
The Japanese in the official business side of their lives where people do not meet on a highly personalized basis, provide us an excellent example of tight monochronic time. But they are polychronic when looking and working inward, toward themselves./Low context
Japan is a high-context culture. A lot of things are left unsaid, but it s already understood by the members that constitute the group. As they say, a smart person learns 10 things, when he s been told 1 thing (a Chinese proverb.)
We can prove that Japanese culture is high-context if we reread the section traditional Japanese wedding and nonverbal communication. We can see a lot of special traditions, rituals in wedding section and wonderful gestures and specific behavior for foreigners in nonverbal communication section.are some characteristics of High Context culture, which we can notice in Japanese culture.
* Less verbally explicit communication, less written/formal information
* More internalized understandings of what is communicated
* Multiple cross-cutting ties and intersections with others
* Long term relationships
* Strong boundaries - who is accepted as belonging vs who is considered an «outsider»
* Knowledge is situational, relational.
* Decisions and activities focus around personal face-to-face relationships, often around a central person who has authority.
I hope that I ll visit Japan someday and sink into this wonderful, exceptional and unique culture!
Bibliography
1. «The Constitution of Japan». House of Councillors of the National Diet of Japan. 3 November 1946.
2. «World Factbook: Japan». CIA. 2011.
. Fackler, Martin (27 December 2013). «Ex-Premier Is Chosen To Govern Japan Again». The New York Times (New York).
. Dean, Meryll (2002). Japanese legal system: text, cases amp; materials (2nd ed.). Cavendish. pp. 55-58.
. Kanamori, Shigenari (1 January 1999). «German influences on Japanese Pre-War Constitution and Civil Code». European Journal of Law and Economics 7 (1): 93-95
. «The Japanese Judicial System». Office of the Prime Minister of Japan.
. Ellington, Lucien (1 December 2003). «Beyond the Rhetoric: Essential Questions About Japanese Education». Foreign Policy Research Institute.
. «School Education». MEXT 2007
. «TOP - 100». Global Universities Ranking. 2009.
. «QS World Unive...
