Like the time two workers at a nuclear reactor almost created a critical mass in a bucket: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...
Most definitely not. Japanese working culture is notorious for rigidity, lack of transparency, and slow decision-making. Workers are exploited, despite few possibilities for promotion, wildly unreasonable expectations are common. Many employees work for 80 or more hours each week, with many of those hours considered unpaid overtime. Even after the workday is over, workers are expected to spend their free time socializing with colleagues outside of work. Workers who take measures to improve their mental health are met with a level of stigma, and many are told to simply get some rest, while at the same time suffering constant pressure to always be working with no time to relax.
It's like end-stage America, if anything.
That kind of mindset is stereotypical of the 1940s maybe, but would be regarded as crazy today for someone just going about their work.
Japanese people, like many other are proud. Rightly so, it’s an amazing culture. But it’s not efficient one. At least not now.
If the whole world just keeps mindlessly repeating this trope, they’re never going to try improve and get with the times.
It’s a highly inefficient and backwards society of late and really could do with modernising.
The Japanese proverb for it is: "Kusai ni futa wo shire" - if there's a stink, put a lid over it.
I have never heard this in nearly the same frequency or predictability from members of any other culture. It's almost cute in how revealing it is when you hit their weak spot.
> It's almost cute in how revealing it is when you hit their weak spot.
What's actually revealing is how you were quick to assume my nationality and spit out racist insults.
And it's 100% Japanese culture that creates these types of dangerous accidents. South Korea has them too, because they culturally so close (confucianism and remnants of feudalism being at the core of the problem).