The top English bi-weekly news source for the Chubu region. By John E. Gibson The Chubu Weekly Increasingly in recent years, cultural trends in the West have tended to impact Japan like tsunamis. It's just a fashion. Donahue, who holds a doctorate in intercultural communication, does admit that Japan's constant borrowing of cultural tendencies is more than just skin deep.
Japan has a lot of diversity within itself.
There are people who grow up in what has been called a bi-civilized society by having been created with East and West influences. At almost every turn in Japan, you may see remnants of Western culture. But whatever it is, the Japanese are using this in their own Japanese way. Baseball's a great example in just how they put so much emphasis on team play. My point would be that if we solely consider Japan-U.S. comparisons, we are likely to exaggerate descriptions of Japan.