What is Environment-Harmony, Communication-High Context
100
The March 20th or 21st is the spring equinox, which is the date for Japanese to commemorate and pay respects to their ancestors.
What is Power-distance--Hierarchy; Time--past
100
Starting as early as preschool there is a huge emphasis on the values of peaceful interaction with their peers and how one should behave towards authority. Japanese children are taught how to behave when part of a group and the value of teamwork.
What is Environment-Harmony
100
During the first meeting in business, Japanese exchange their business name card.
What is Formality--Formal; Power distance--Hierarchy
100
This value reflects Japan’s use of rice as the main staple food for thousands of years.
What is Time: Past
200
Nike Commercial
What is Structure
200
In the New Year, the Japanese send greeting cards to their family members, friends and colleagues.
What is Formality-Formal, Action-Being
200
This value is shown in the preservation and continuing importance of the Manyoshu, the oldest book of poetry in Japan. This work has become the standard of this artform and many believe there has never been work that has equaled the importance of this book.
What is Time-Past
200
The office layout in Japan company consists of tables with rows of many tables and chairs, along with separate offices for executives.
What is Power distance--Hierarchy, Collectivism
200
Some customers complaints that they do not want to be starred by strangers when they are having meals in the restaurant. The manager of Ichiran restaurant decorated the restaurant by using divides to separate the space for customers in order to protect their privacy.
What is Space-Private space
300
Toyota Commercial
What is Structure, Time-past, Formality
300
On August 15th, the Summer Festival in Japan, people wear kimono, visit the temples and shrines, and enjoy the firework. Usually, this festival is sponsored by the local temples or shrines.
What is Time-past, Formality--Formal
300
Japanese tea ceremony is a special event for Japanese and has been tradition for their culture where they wear kimono to drink green tea in Japanese tea bowl while relaxing and leaving all their life problems as they enter the tea room.
What is Time-Past, Formality-Formal; Action-being
300
During the job interview, Japanese wear the suits and dye their hair back to black.
What is Formality--Formal
300
In a traditional Japanese restaurant, these values reflect the unwritten rules to take off your shoes at the door and wear a Kimono while inside the restaurant.
What is Formal-Formality, Harmony-Environment,
400
Samsung Galaxy Commercial
What is Action-Being
400
This value is reflected during “Coming of age day” or 成人の日, which celebrates those who turned 20 years old and is celebrated every year on the second Monday of January
What is Time-Past,
400
Japanese hang the colorful Koinobori which is the carp streamer flags on children’s day in order to celebrate their children can grow up healthy and work hard in the future.
What is Environment-Constraint
400
This value is represented in the two forms of Japanese indebtedness: "giri" and "on". An example of "on" is a new employee working the rest of his life to repay the debt he owes for being hired through looking after new employees, while "giri" is an obligation which requires the self-discipline to overcome feelings and fulfill debt owed to others'
What is Collectivist
400
Before each meal, it is tradition to say, “Itadakimasu”, which directly translates to “I gratefully receive”. This value highlights the offstage meaning to this phrase as giving thanks to the food itself because it also had life.
What is High Context-communication
500
Swimming Commercial/Video
What is Competition, Collectivism
500
The Day for Respecting Elder or 敬老の日 which is the third Monday in September shows off this cultural value?
What is Hierarchy - Power Distance,
500
When you give Japanese gifts, they usually refuse twice or third times. If you insist on giving the gifts to them, they will receive it with their two hands to show appreciate and respect.
What is Structure-order
500
When you give Japanese gifts, they usually refuse twice or third times. If you insist on giving the gifts to them, they will receive it with their two hands to show appreciate and respect.
What is Structure--Order
500
When eating with your colleagues, this value represents the Japanese custom of waiting to eat or drink until everyone at the table has been served.