Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER TWELVE

A View of Japan Through Japanese Art

JAPAN, AS EVERYBODY KNOWS, is a country of rigid rules and of individual subordination to a collective will. It is the country where the young college student goes hiking in the mountains, but turns boot and pack over to a younger brother or sister upon graduation. It is the country where the student is a radical in college but becomes a faithful conservative upon being hired by Mitsubishi Bank or Ministry of Finance. It is the country where a young woman wears one kind of kimono until the day of her wedding, and then puts on the married woman’s kimono for the rest of her life.

Japan is a country ...