ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers a 'global' interpretation of the lives of Japanese bankers and the people around them, not a purely British or Japanese interpretation. It examines the cultural identities of the transnational business people. The book illustrates cross-cultural communication led to the construction of stereotypes of men and women in their own culture and of the 'other'. It demonstrates when these business people move between nations, they change their locations between cultures. The experiences of Japanese bank staff can be considered as one stage in the process of Japan's extension of global influence. The book argues that the history of modern Japan has been an informal process of expansion to the core of the world as a latecomer to the global community through trading, exporting products, investing capital, according to the Western model, travelling all over the world and buying goods from everywhere.
