14/03/13 12:55:53.67
Call for acid-bath stem-cell paper to be retracted
URLﾘﾝｸ(blogs.nature.com)
>Steve Jackman said:
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>As an American who is a long term resident of Japan and has worked at Japanese companies here,
>I have long agonized at the sloppy nature of work I have witnessed at these companies.
>This call for retraction of the Japanese stem cell study by one of the Japanese co-autors has once again put the spotlight on this problem.
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>Foreigners have an image of the Japanese as very thorough, detail-oriented, and meticulous.
>However, my experience in Japan over more than a decade has been just the opposite of this.
>Things got so bad at my Japanese company that everytime I would check my Japanese subordinates’ work,
>for me it was never a matter of if I would find mistakes, but how many mistakes would I eventually end up finding.
>Many of these were due to pure sloppiness, carelessness, an inability to think independently,
>critically or to ask questions, a blind allegiance to protocol and heirarchy,
>and a fear of being perceived as a troublemaker or someone who is not a team player.
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>This helped me understand why Japanese companies place such importance on manuals, rules and doing things by the book,
>since the Japanese are usually very good at following rules that have been written down for them.
>This style may work well for manufacturing industries, but not for research, STEM fileds (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), or in the knowledge and service industries of the future.
日本のイメージがどんどん低下していってるな