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

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

How Westernized Are the Japanese?

“I DETEST THE NEPOTISM THAT pervades Japanese academic life,” says the distinguished historian. “Young scholars should make their careers on their merits and not on their family ties. That’s why I married my four daughters to the ablest and brightest of my doctoral students. This way I could do what Japanese tradition expects and place my sons-in-law into the best of professorships—and I could do it with a good conscience for I know they deserve it.”

“We are completely Western in this outfit,” says the successful independent movie producer in his modernistic Tokyo studio. “We even have a woman ...