Word: matsuyama
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...collusion of Japanese politics and society is dramatically different from the confrontational manner of American politicians, Matsuyama said...
Decrying today's argumentative television shows, Matsuyama said the old classic American movies showed the value of "self-restraint, the spirit of self-sacrifice which once moved us all greatly but is now disdained in the law schools and business schools...
Another essential difference between Japan and America, Matsuyama said, is that there is too much cooperation in Japanese politics and not enough between those in America...
...Japanese equivalent of America's "old-boy network" and the growing corruption fueled by "Yenocracy" taint Japanese politics, Matsuyama said...
...However, Matsuyama expressed hope that Japanese and American politics were slowly integrating and learning to adapt to each other's extreme forms of democracy...