I've lived a long time in foreign countries, and because of my job, I'm like a lone wolf. In my business, I have more freedom to do what I want, but when I am with my foreign conductor friends, I still feel that I care about what they think about me. It frustrates me even though it may not appear to. When teaching music at school, teaching overseas and teaching in Japan are different. The junior high school I went to is a free school, but when compared with schools in the United States, students at my school always worked orderly in groups.
Creativity is individual.
You have individuals before creativity. In that sense, foreigners are much more individual. Japanese people lack creativity, but I think education can make the difference. If education is not done correctly, it takes time to develop creativity. In that case, we have to wait for geniuses to appear.