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The eight core values of the Japanese businessman: Toward an understanding of Japanese management (Routledge, 2016). Kumagai, Fumie, and Donna J. Keyser. Unmasking Japan today: The impact of traditional values on modern Japanese society (Greenwood, 1996) online. Makoto, A. T. O. H. "Very low fertility in Japan and value change hypotheses."
Many scholars assert that honne–tatemae is a concept integral to understanding Japanese culture, such as Professor Takeo Doi, who considered the honne–tatemae divide to be of paramount importance in Japanese culture [4] as well as other researchers like Ozaki, who utilized the concept to study Japanese perceptions of class and status. [8]
Pages in category "Japanese values" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Bowing Bowing in the tatami room. Bowing (お辞儀, o-jigi) is probably the feature of Japanese etiquette that is best known outside Japan. Bowing is extremely important: although children normally begin learning how to bow at a very young age, companies commonly train their employees precisely how they are to bow.
Originally Yamato-damashii did not bear the bellicose weight or ideological timbre that it later assumed in pre-war modern Japan. It first occurs in the Otome (乙女) section of The Tale of Genji (Chapter 21), as a native virtue that flourishes best, not as a contrast to foreign civilization but, rather precisely, when it is grounded on a solid basis in Chinese learning.
Confucian values and popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in eighteenth century Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 1993) online; Zhang, Yan Bing, et al. "Harmony, hierarchy and conservatism: A cross-cultural comparison of Confucian values in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan." Communication research reports 22.2 (2005): 107-115. online
Wa (和) is a Japanese cultural concept usually translated into English as "harmony". It implies a peaceful unity and conformity within a social group in which members prefer the continuation of a harmonious community over their personal interests.
In Japanese society, particularly in historical feudal Japan, isagiyosa (潔さ, "purity") is a virtue, translated with "resolute composure" or "manliness". [1] Able to be interpreted as "grace with pride", [ 2 ] isagiyosa is the capability of accepting death with composure and equanimity.