Executive Summary This assignment is to analyze the U.S. culture and Japanese culture by using Hofstede’s 5 cultural dimensions and Trompenaars’s cultural dimensions. According to the Wal-Mart’s Japanese strategy case to distinguish the difference culture in Japan compare with U.S. There are some problems that Wal-Mart may encounter which are Japan’s current distribution system‚ people’s traditional thinking of low price equate low quality and people would not going big shopping. The inherent
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Zen Buddhism in Japan Culture The two main religions of the Japanese people are Shintoism and Zen Buddhism. While they both play major roles in Japanese culture today‚ Shintoism is as old as the Japanese culture itself while Zen Buddhism was imported from the mainland in the sixth century. Zen Buddhism teaches that everyone is an enlightened being‚ but we have yet to comprehend that. It also teaches to take away anything that is unnecessary in our life and leave only the bare essentials. The main
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producer of drugs and chemicals in Japan that distribute also distribute Weaver’s product which is one of the largest U.S drug firms. Leonard Prescott is the vice president and general manager of Weaver Pharmaceutical. He thinks that his executive assistant John Higgins has lost control over his effectiveness representing the U.S parent company and has an extraordinary identification with Japanese culture. Because of Higgins are too attached to Japanese cultures‚ Prescott has noticed his attitude
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.................. 13 D. Negotiation .................................................................................................................... 14 4. Leadership and corporate culture ....................................................................................... 15 A. Organizational culture ................................................................................................... 15
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Weaver-Yamazaki Pharmaceutical of Japan‚ believed that John Higgins‚ his executive assistant‚ was losing effectiveness in representing the U.S. parent company because of an extraordinary identification with the Japanese culture‚ (Japan is shown in Map 2.5.) The parent company‚ Weaver Pharmaceutical‚ had extensive international operations and was one of the largest U.S. drug firms. Its competitive position depended heavily on research and development (R&D). Sales activity in Japan started in the early 1930s
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Triggers of cultural change in Japan during the 1990s were traditional ways of doing business. In 1990s‚ Japan was encounter with bubble burst of financial crisis (economic slump) then every business unit which were get the problem with crisis must change their business ways as fast as they can to make their business moving on with not crush. Businesses start to lay off worker and reduce business size to smaller and change in many internal process such as company benefit‚ company housing‚ etc. Then it makes
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company’s real contribution to Japanese society was in introducing new ideas and innovations. Whereas‚ Higgins on the other hand is more tied up to the Japanese culture. This due to his admiration towards the Japanese culture. The symptom to this problem is that Higgins strongly objected Prescott’s decision to lay off a manager in the company. Other than that‚ Prescott also hesitate to ask for any opinion from Higgins because Higgins will constantly objects to changes that were contrary to the Japanese
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spend his time in Japan. I would describe Prescott’s attitude more for the U.S. way of implementing the personnel policies in the Japanese operations‚ since he really did not like the way Higgins handled situations. 2. What are the major reasons for the differences in attitude? Well Higgins would rather be in Japan then he would in the U.S. He wanted the opportunity to improve the "ugly American" image the he believe held abroad. Higgins had taken to the Japanese culture. He married a Japanese
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Texas. The movie Fear and Trembling relates the story of Amelie Nothomb‚ a Belgian young woman. Amelie was born and raised in Japan‚ but her family background comes from Belgium. She moved back there when she was five. The film tells the story of Amelie‚ whenever she returned to Japan after getting the job offer as an interpreter within one of the most important Japanese company: Yumimoto. She always admired the Japanese refinement‚ sophistication and their art of living and her dream has always been
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Religion and Culture in Modern Japan Due to the younger generation of Japan ’s increasing apathy towards religion‚ Japan ’s rich culture‚ identity‚ and national pride is in jeopardy. This can be concluded by reviewing the connection between religion and culture through Japanese history‚ and comparing it to the state of the two in modern Japan. By fading away from traditional religion and culture‚ Japan will continue to adopt western culture and form a new‚ blended culture‚ as it has in the
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