In one of my cultural-insight books on Mexico *Why Mexicans Think & Behave the Way They Do*] I quote a well-known saying, *Como Mexico no hay dos * There is no other country like Mexico ]. This saying is even truer in the case of Japan because Japanese history is much longer; its culture is far more distinctive, and the exotic and erotic aspects of Japan are far more fundamental. The* ori*ginal core values and behavior of the Japanese emanated from Shint precepts, their native religion, which was based on the imperatives of nature, including the importance and role of the sensual and the...