[1000mp] Letter Writers

[Dr. Robert C. Smithwick]

Great suggestions, Pete.

Customs such as this are often hard for most Americans to understand. 
We have a tendency to  ignore or laugh it off. That is not the 
Japanese way. And in Japan, or working with Japanese companies,  we 
should make an effort to be consistent with Japanese customs - just 
as we might expect them to behave in our country.

de/smitty/w6cs


>At 02:28 PM 5/14/02 -0700, John R. Winward wrote:
>>You are forgetting differences in culture, if you write directly to Mr.
>>Hasegawa, you are doing what's known as an "End Run" around Mr. Maruya.
>>This is a No - No or to put it another way, a black mark against Mr.
>>Maruya. To write to the president may be the American way, but it'd not
>>the way it's done with our Asian partners.
>
>A slight demurrer here. Writing Mr. Hasegawa is OK. The worst of all
>possible worlds, in my view, is to write Mr. Hasegawa and copy Mr.
>Maruya. The issue here is face, not blame, and by copying Mr. Maruya you
>are ensuring that he will lose face.  I've checked this with a 
>Japanese specialist because China was my professional field, and I 
>wanted to be sure the principle transferred.  It does.
>
>73, Pete Smith N4ZR
>
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