There is something referred to in the US as the Protestant work ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesta

There is something referred to in the US as the Protestant work ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic Japan just gets a lot of attention as 1. The earliest Asian developed economy and 2. The earlier bubble-era panic over Japanese economic dominance