[1000mp] Letter Writers

[Garry Shapiro]

Mr. Maruya (Mikio, WA6F) is a very active DXer. He will almost certainly be
at Dayton, and perhaps a delegation can arrange to meet with him.

Garry, NI6T

>
> 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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