Japanese Business Culture

In Dr. Hatfield's class today, we talked about culture, how important it was and how to use it to change the organization. This reminded me about the Japanese Speech Contest which I joined in about 2 years ago. My speech in the contest was mainly about Japanese Business Culture which was very unique. Even though Japan and Vietnam are all located in Asia, there are many differences in business culture between these countries.
I think most of us have, at least once, heard about Japan Miracle which was famous all over the world. It was the story about extremely damaged Japan after World War II strive to recover the economy in a short period of time and keep developing with an amazing speed. I believed that the business culture was one of the most important factors that contributed to the success of Japan.
I would like to introduce some special features that make Japanese business culture become unique. The first one is that Japanese people usually using "slogan" in their work and even in their private lives. Slogans are somehow a tool to encourage and remind themselves about the optimum goals that they seriously need to obtain. Another feature that really impresses me is "meishi" (名刺) and meishi kokan - the business card culture. Receiving the cards from the business partners by two hands and put them in a respectful place such as business card holders are the ways to express how much that person respects the partner as well as the business itself. Putting the cards in wallets or pockets is considered disrespectful. Japanese people respect the other ones who are older. The older the partners are, the lower the other has to bow to greet them. Besides, relationship is considered very important in conducting business success. Japanese people normally really serious in working and often prefer to work for one company for the whole of their lives.