What Is It Like to Start a Business in Japan As a Foreigner? | Street Interview (youtube.com)
Big, stable companies, avoid risk.
The process is so good, so already figured out, people just follow it, whereas in the US there is no process so people improvise, said one guy.
The ground level may be making cartoon characters to get kinds comfortable with the idea (like coffee candies and cartoons), so 20 years later they might be customers.
In Japanese companies, the way of building trust (in employees), is sort of just seeing who is willing to stick around the longest, who can we count on, said another. It's not about who is working the hardest or who is doing the most outstanding work. They're more interested in how they appear in the office, they're preferred by the managers, who appear to work hard when the boss is around, their behavious, rather than favoring people who do the best work. Appearance, manners, extra bow, walking people to the station, staying late.
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¿Qué ha provocado el gran apagón en España? (youtube.com)
Since they don't want to say, should we assume it's something they don't want to say, like China, NKorea, etc? A local or random hacker they didn't want to pay off?