It should be obvious. Even half-asleep, in bed with a pair of sex-addicted 
biffs, Ohara’s got more on the ball than his toady senior aide and so-called
chief of staff. As if there could be any doubt. He allows himself a sarcastic 
smile. The only problem with the Japanese, the one most serious problem, is that 
they have no initiative. They can’t make a decision without first consulting a
committee of thousands—everyone they work with, everyone they work for, right on
up to the chairman of the board of directors—if Ohara let them go that far.