INDIAN GARMENT MANUFACTURING AND ITS TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION. An Assessment in the Post-Quota Environment

Virtually all cases of civil conflict are settled by conciliation, either out of court or before any legal judgment is made. [159] Table 1. Japanese attitudes towards gender. Figure 4. The Japanese commitment to work. Figure 5. Japanese expectations of the workplace. Figure 6. Japanese attitudes towards rules. This picture of Japanese distinctiveness should not come as any great surprise. Even a relatively casual acquaintance with Japanese society conveys this impression. [160] As the accompanying tables and charts illustrate, Japanese attitudes and values remain strikingly different from those of Western societies, notwithstanding the fact that they share roughly the same level of development. [161] The first reason for this hardly needs restating: cultural differences have an extraordinary endurance, with Japan’s rooted in a very different kind of civilization. [162] The second is historical: because the Meiji Restoration was a relatively recent event, Japan is still strongly marked by the proximity of its feudal past. [163] Furthermore, the post-1868 ruling elite consciously and deliberately set out to retain as much of the past as possible ...»