This country is clearly a capitalist country, and large units of the economy, such as corporations, certainly operate on the principle of a market economy. But individuals are not primarily driven by economic motives. Ability and competition do not significantly affect economic rewards. How, then, did it become one of most developed nations? Regardless of whether the work you are assigned to is important or insignificant, the tenacious sense of duty for the work given to you, this notional mentality, seem to be the driving force of Japanese society.
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It is true that there are companies in Japan that set very high work culture standards for their workers, and there are certain professions (chefs and doctors come to mind) which are treated as an art in general - however, this is absolutely not a universal trend in the economy. Japanese programmers, for instance, are infamously behind the rest of the world, and a lot of software even in the leading Japanese companies has not been updated much since the 90-s. Japanese web developers are stuck in the early 90-s as well, and most of the Japanese websites are horrific, looking like this:
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