Japan is known as the Yamato nation, and the core of its national spirit is "collective centralism." "Collective centralism" is the soul of the founding of the Japanese nation and one of the important reasons for Japan's modern rise and rapid modern revival. Its root lies in the homogeneity of Japanese national culture and psychology. In ancient times, Japan was composed of three parts: the Japanese, various ethnic minorities, and immigrants from the mainland. Long-term communication and integration turned them into a single nation in the process of qualitative changes in politics, society, and culture. This kind of single nation enjoys a unified culture and has a homogeneous national psychology. In formal situations, the Japanese superior-subordinate relationship gives people the impression of a very different status. Subordinates always bow to their superiors, but in informal relationships, subordinates feel as close to their superiors as one family. Social The absence of stratification prevents the emergence of class subcultures, thereby ensuring the homogeneity of Japanese culture.

Japan is a distinctive nation in the world’s national coordinates. In the past, most people in this country were engaged in a monoculture economy based on growing rice. This production method would have been difficult without the help of the entire family and neighbors to take care of each other from spring planting to autumn harvest. This is the origin of the formation of collectivism, the core of Japanese national culture. Japanese culture can be said to be a "bainai", which is mainly composed of Chinese, British, American and local factors. The Japanese's own creativity is inspired by the introduction of foreign civilization, and then promotes the development of the country. The secondary nature of Japanese culture has formed the value orientation of this nation to learn and inoculate other cultures. After the war, Japan spared no effort to introduce advanced science and technology and management strategies from the West, and integrated them with traditional culture to cultivate a new Japanese-style civilization with oriental characteristics.

A famous modern Japanese thinker said: "We in Japan have never had philosophy from ancient times to the present." Japanese people have a "close to nature" emotional tendency, and they emphasize feelings over abstraction in their way of thinking; Experience, light thinking. Japanese culture has a tendency to emphasize learning, imitation and comprehensive re-creation. In the final analysis, it is the realism and rationalism of its culture, which in turn form pragmatism. "Home" is the foundation of Japanese culture. The traditional overall structure of Japan is the union of "households", with the royal family at the top. This multi-level relationship forms the political organization of Japanese society as a whole, that is, the country. This vertical social organizational structure has strict hierarchical characteristics. In traditional Japanese society, in addition to the royal family and court nobles, the following levels are samurai, farmers, workers, merchants and untouchables. Japanese people pay great attention to "loyalty" and "filial piety". The Japanese concepts of "loyalty" and "filial piety" are inconsistent with the Chinese understanding. The basic premise of the Japanese is that every man and woman is born with a "debt of debt". If you have a debt, you need to repay the debt, and the main form of repaying the debt is "loyalty." The well-known Japanese "entrepreneurial spirit" and "collectivism" are largely based on the value of "loyalty". Because of its unique culture, Japan was able to embark on its successful path to modernization.

Japanese culture is certainly dominated by its positive and successful side. Otherwise, it would be unbelievable for it to become the world's largest economic power after the United States today. Japan's economy has reached true internationalization. However, it is regrettable that in terms of their national character, the mentality of the Japanese is far from international. They still wrap themselves in the unified Yamato national cultural circle and refuse to allow outsiders to join or enter other people's world. circle. The deep imprint of "Japanese" in the Japanese psychology has become an invisible fetter, which hinders the integration of the Japanese nation with other nations and the in-depth expansion of Japan's economic internationalization. What do the Japanese call? outsider? It refers to people of various styles who came to Japan from distant overseas countries. A large number of Japanese operators and technicians traveled across the ocean. Cultural differences inevitably caused conflicts, and cultural barriers made the necessary communication to resolve conflicts more difficult. Among overseas Japanese managers caught up in the wave of internationalization, few can speak or are willing to speak foreign languages. The author was studying at a university in Beijing and saw a Japanese professor who had to be accompanied by a Chinese translator, although he gave some explanations in English from time to time. The reason is that in addition to the language itself, strong national self-esteem and pride form a thick barrier. Japanese people rarely say no ("NO") for fear of hurting the other person's feelings. Japanese people also have a tendency to swallow the words that come to their lips in order not to give the other party a bad impression.

This kind of hesitant and vague expression often makes people feel confused and at a loss what to do; and the direct and straightforward statements of opinions by "outsiders" can unintentionally hurt the feelings of Japanese people. The Japanese have a strong sense of "their own people" and form a circle of "their own people". Foreigners who enter Japan are far less lucky than Japanese people who enter foreign countries (especially the United States, a country of immigrants). Japanese operators overseas always form their own circles consciously or unconsciously. Too strong a national consciousness will often turn into exclusive and narrow nationalism. This narrow nationalism has become the main shackle that hinders Japan from achieving comprehensive internationalization. Some Japanese people also link the export of systems with the export of capital. They believe that "Japanese business systems" can be transplanted abroad. Although the Japanese economy has made remarkable achievements after the war, and the Japanese system has many lessons for other countries, an appropriate cultural foundation is needed for the system to work. Today's Japan has been involved in the wave of internationalization. The Japanese mentality needs to be fully internationalized, downplay their sense of racial superiority, relax their guard against "outsiders", and communicate with other ethnic groups on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. This is the general trend of economic globalization.