I have no idea about their attention to detail but lots of business practices in Japan are way behind. Lots of paperwork, faxes, stamps needed in places that most other 1st world countries have made digital and efficient

I remember a YouTube comment : "if you're good at something, there's an Asian that is better than you at it. And if you're Asian there's a Japanese that is better than you."

Anyway I don't think it's genetic, but cultural.

Remember the pull cord on the Toyota production line.

A car comes by, doesn't look right, anyone could pull the cord and stop the line while the problem was understood.

> A car comes by, doesn't look right, anyone could pull the cord and stop the line while the problem was understood.

Yeah, but I bet that anyone frivolously pulling the cord would find themselves out of a job.

To pull the cord would take great confidence. To have spotted a real production issue would have to be met with praise.

Eh, obviously?

The point being it isn't fundamentally different from going to your supervisor. In both cases you're going to get judged on your decision.

people, I did say "cultural gene pool"

I get the downvotes now lol

Wouldn't it be a meme pool?

"Beware the chopsticks gene."

Abstract:

Population stratification is a potential source of error in psychiatric genetics. New study designs and statistical methods can help guard against this problem. Molecular Psychiatry (2000) 5, 11-13.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10673763

The full text: https://www.nature.com/articles/4000662

Yes they do. They are east's brits. Or the brits are the west's japanese. idk how it works. I get the impression the brits are willing to cheat a smidge to get the quality result, I don't know if that cultural value is the same in japan.