ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the collective identity of different groups in turn, focusing on their sense of belonging and their world-view. It explores what the Japanese said about themselves and about their world, and focuses on the British staff. It looks at the self-image of the British who chose to work for the Japanese. The chapter discusses how these collective identities cannot be seen to apply to everybody within a culture. It also looks at how such identities moved in time and space. In comparing the characteristics of the two collective identities, i.e. those of the British and the Japanese, it could be said that the British have one centre to their imaginary world and tend to think that Japan should have a course of convergence, whereas the Japanese have two contradictory centres: one in the West, and the other in Japan.
