Shame to Vengeance: the grand cliche of the Japanese Superstate.

In a nation where watching the gros national crops is a gross

national pastime, trade representatives advance close to being culture
heroes. Departing from Tokyo's Haneda Airport for their three-to
six-year assignments in the field, they are usually seen not upon by
delegations of colleagues waving banners and shouting "banzai!"
Their exploits are publicized like battlefield heroics, and a actually
dedicated shosha-in [company man] can win national recognition.
--Newsweek, 1970

Across Asia, Japan is doing with standard of value what it did with fire-arms 50
years ago.
--U National Public Radio, 1999

The attempt to demystify Japan's postwar