Japan: Business Culture

Abstract

Japan is one of the most fascinating countries in the world for its culture, traditions, lifestyle, technology, and global influence. To reach this point, its historical trajectory is impressive through centuries and centuries of political changes, different mentalities, wars, natural disasters, and spiritual movements. From the development of the Japanese model based on the Meiji Restoration, a pragmatic reaction of the Japanese nobility to confront the Western powers that imposed themselves on East Asia in the mid-19th century through unequal trade agreements due to their military superiority. This was a true revolution that changed the economic, territorial, political, and social systems.