>>90785164I'll explain why that is.
The premise: Japan is more Confucian (read broadly Sino-East Asian) than anything else; and the West is more Germanic than anything else.
Systems (in all senses) in Japan are built to never fail. Their model of redundancy is planning for every contingency. Why is that? In the countries of rice agriculture was a complex task of irrigation technology and labor management. Everyone had a role, and if someone fucked up, everybody starved and died.
System failure must never happen, and if it does, it invalidates it in its entirety (because historically there was no one left to assess what went wrong). Responsibility assignment is not a feedback tool, but rather a punitive way of cooperation enforcement through fear. Therefore it's avoided like a hot potato, and settling into a consensus takes a long time.
Should something fail, the responsible parties are excised from the system with finality.
All those fuckers on the picrelated are loafing around because nobody wants any responsibility in case something goes even a millimeter awry from the protocols. And there are protocols for every contingency, written out in truly autistic levels of detail.
And since this a very deep layer of the mindset, they tend to arrange mostly everything in this manner.
To compare, in the West redundancy is done through adaptability, and there's no rigid assignment of responsibility in advance. People more readily go with the flow, failures are expected to happen. Responsibility is attributed post factum, used as a feedback tool, and by itself doesn't imply punishment.
