Corruption Is De Rigueur In Corporate Japan
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Although I applaud your coverage of Japan's economic crisis ("Shareholder rights? In Japan?" Asian Business, Nov. 2), I think you should devote more space to the institutionalized corruption here and the reasons it has been allowed to go unchecked--which I see as follows:
1. The Japanese tend to protect any authority figure, no matter how corrupt.