Gift giving and the honor system on "On" is alive and well in Japan. From the simple act of giving a business card, to gifting an exquisitely wrapped present, everything has meaning and layers of thought and attention that presents in the West lack. Unfortunately this attention to detail can lead to horrible things when ignored. This week in Tokyo "a disgruntled Japanese worker smashed up his employer's office in a fit of pique after his boss ignored his gift of jelly desserts...When the employee realized that his boss had left the box of jellies unopened under his desk, he smashed 22 computers in the office with a truncheon..." The employee also didn't apologize feeling his honor and "on" had been hurt by his boss's cruelty. In Japan HE, not his boss, is almost the one in the right. It probably would have been more cut and dry without the whole smashing computers thing.
