I think too in Japan that their intense focus on honour and behaviour means they are much better at hiding displeasure at doing things.
The west is very selfish, each person mostly focused on their own individual career and not in seeing the larger picture. Japanese are not as such.
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You, ma'am, obviously know
nothing of modern Japanese society....
The basic thing which is ingrained in most Japanese from [censored] birth is
Don't rock the boat. The concept is called wa (和) and basically means something like "group harmony"... it has nothing to with the Japanese having more or less discipline, that is up to the individual, it's simply a cultural thing. So, when a salaryman works 50+ hours a week and never sees his family, it's not that he has any great desire to do so, it's simply what he does. He's been taught not cause trouble for his coworkers. While things are slowly changing away from this method of thinking, it's not going away anytime soon. Honor has nothing to do with it... that's a romanticed fiction created by novels, movies, and spin doctors.