日本企業之弊在不敢面對真實Japan Can't Handle the Truth

FACT OF LIFE (人生的真實)必須面對 企業亦然

BY DUNCAN MAVIN AND JAMES SIMMS

Brand Japan, which used to stand for a culture of excellence, these days brings to mind something else: denial.

Refusal to face up to the truth is becoming a theme. From Toyota Motor's executives' reluctance to address a public-relations crisis in the U.S. last year to the suits at Tokyo Electric Power initially denying the full extent of a nuclear disaster earlier in 2011. Now we move on to Olympus, where the company says executives hid losses for several years. ...