ABSTRACT

Japanese management encourages cooperation and consensus, perhaps because Japan’s historic rice cultivation could only have succeeded with teamwork and mutual respect. Japanese culture, developed in a land with limited fossil fuel resources, depends on efficiency for sustainability. Cooperation, consensus, and conservation have important roots in Japan’s respect for family values, art, culture, and nature. Soichiro Honda and Fujisawa Takeo declared in an early company principle: “Maintaining an international viewpoint, we are dedicated to supplying products of the highest performance.”