The Moral Vision
The Japanese Experience
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feelings of hatred against Americans. But they do
not let it rule their lives.
By virtue of such a temperament they have scaled
such great heights of progress in a very short span
of time. They own neither petrol resources nor
mineral wealth, most of their raw materials having
to be imported. Keeping all these drawbacks in
view, it is most amazing that they have dominated
world markets. This is mainly owing to the superior
quality of their goods.
Mr. Khushwant Singh also enquired about the
prospects of the legal profession there. He was told
that it was not a flourishing business, the reason
being that the Japanese preferred settling disputes
on their own to sueing in the courts. Willingness to
admit faults by each party is the surest way to bring
quarrels to an end. It is only when either party
seeks to place the whole blame on the other side
that the quarrel takes a turn for the worse. Whereas
the very gesture of shouldering the blame softens
up the other side, with the result that the dispute
dies a natural death.
