{"id":304,"date":"2011-05-10T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2015-03-16T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:40:55","slug":"10-things-the-world-can-learn-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/10-things-the-world-can-learn-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things the World Can Learn From Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello readers,<\/span><\/div>\n

I don’t know who originally wrote this list, but I found it interesting. I have been to Japan a couple of times and it is a country easy to rave about, especially when you want excellent food, customer service, beautiful scenery, and great people. Since the big earthquake Japan is really struggling, and yet, as this list indicates, she does not lose her composure.<\/p>\n

If you want to understand where all this ‘national DNA’ or ‘cultural training’ came from, I can recommend a great book to read, called “BUSHIDO: The Soul of Japan<\/b>” by Nitobe Inazo. This is an old book, first published in 1905, as a way for the author to try to teach the visiting foreigners and businessmen about why the Japanese think and act the way they do. It’s not a light read, but if you are interested in the culture, then it’s a must-read.<\/p>\n

Anyway, without further ado, here is the 10 things the world can learn from Japan<\/i>:<\/p>\n

1. THE CALM:
\nNot a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself
\nhas been elevated.<\/p>\n

2. THE DIGNITY:
\nDisciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough
\nword or a crude gesture.<\/p>\n

3. THE ABILITY:
\nThe incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but
\ndidn\u2019t fall.<\/p>\n

4. THE GRACE:
\nPeople bought only what they needed for the present, so
\neverybody could get something.<\/p>\n

5. THE ORDER:
\nNo looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the
\nroads. Just understanding.<\/p>\n

6. THE SACRIFICE:
\nFifty workers stayed back to pump seawater in the N-
\nreactors. How will they ever be repaid?<\/p>\n

7. THE TENDERNESS:
\nRestaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The
\nstrong cared for the weak.<\/p>\n

8. THE TRAINING:
\nThe old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do.
\nAnd they did just that.<\/p>\n

9. THE MEDIA:
\nThey showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly
\nreporters. Only calm reportage.<\/p>\n

10. THE CONSCIENCE:
\nWhen the power went off in a store, people put things back
\non the shelves and left quietly. That’s Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello readers, I don’t know who originally wrote this list, but I found it interesting. I have been to Japan a couple of times and it is a country easy to rave about, especially when you want excellent food, customer service, beautiful scenery, and great people. Since the big earthquake Japan is really struggling, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[535],"tags":[597],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-cultural-communications","tag-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}