manqiangrexue
Brigadier
A Japanese professor once said that China and Japan complement each other perfectly, with China as the man and Japan as the woman.
There are many attractive aspects of Japanese culture that Chinese people are drawn to when they visit there. Examples are their courtesy and polite attitude, their dedication to society (extremely low crime rate, etc...). There was a survey many years ago asking Chinese and Japanese people whether they agreed with the statement that money is the most important indicator of success. In that survey, a large portion of Chinese respondents agreed while a very small portion of Japanese respondents agreed. This reflects a mature excellence in their attitude that we can benefit from, although maybe not right now since we are still growing like mad and not in the mellow and mature stage yet.
Japanese products enjoy a high reputation in the world because Japanese people pour thier hearts and dedicate themselves to the smallest things, making them to a craftsman level of quality. The downside is obviously that that quality is rarely appreciated for the cost (very very few people in the world would want to pay $2K and wait 6 months for some 8th generation Japanese knife master to hand-forge them a kitchen knife that needs 3 hours of grinding mainentance a week through 4 sets of wetstones costing $600 each even if the knife can cut a tomato in half just by being placed on it) so they don't make much money off of it. While there are tons of useless products, even scam ones such as weight loss pills with fake Swedish/German doctors backing them on Chinese infomercials, etc..., this kind of behavior seems to not exist in Japan.
Combine Japanese quality obsession with Chinese efficiency, Chinese vigor for upward mobility and growth with Japanese societal trust/courtesy and we could have the ultimate society in the world.
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