The Japanese have a saying about this -- "Fix the problem, not the blame." I can't resist adding that I've always described this quote in just this way (as do

The Japanese have a saying about this -- "Fix the problem, not the blame." I can't resist adding that I've always described this quote in just this way (as do others), but it's never far from my mind that it relies on an English idiom, one in which "fix" has two meanings. It's not the same in Japanese.