We should learn from the Japanese manager whose prime function is to develop relationships.

Were a Japanese manager to act like this, he would risk imprisonment.

"I think Japanese managers feel a great responsibility to secure employment for them, so their lives won't fall apart."

Japanese managers said they had been pleasantly surprised at the quality of the Mexican work force.

To Japanese managers, this is a scene out of hell.

Japanese managers have inevitably brought some of those attitudes with them to America, labor experts say.

"A Japanese manager might not, and to an American that could send the wrong message."

Saturday classes for children of Japanese managers draw 967 students, compared with 221 a decade ago.

Also, Japanese financial managers tend not to shift money rapidly around the world.

For a Japanese manager to say such a thing would have been unthinkable a few years ago.