“A century ago, when Admiral Perry’s American fleet opened the nation, Japan was a feudal society. The Japanese realized they had to change, and they did. Starting in the 1860s, they brought in thousands of Western specialists to advise them on how to change their government and their industries. The entire society underwent a revolution. There was a second convulsion, equally dramatic, after World War II.”

Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“Japan is not a Western industrial state; it is organized quite differently. And the Japanese have invented a new kind of trade – adversarial trade, trade like war, trade intended to wipe out the competition – which America has failed to understand for several decades.”

Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“All’s fair in love and war, and the Japanese see business as war. Bribery is fine, if you can manage it.”

Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“Business is war.”

Japanese saying