But Japanese people never make mistakes. They always pay their bills. They are always on time. They are robot gods. Turns out they actually do do all of the th

But Japanese people never make mistakes. They always pay their bills. They are always on time. They are robot gods. Turns out they actually do do all of the things you suggest, but that's not how they perceive themselves to be, so 'they don't do that'. True story - I worked on implementing a billing system for a Japanese utility company and when our team asked for the requirements around how to handling dunning when people don't pay their bills the response we got back was "Japanese people always pay their bills." I shit you not.