{"id":1353,"date":"2020-05-27T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2020-09-08T21:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:37:43","slug":"quantify-the-isolation-of-japanese-culture-and-map-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Quantify the isolation of Japanese culture and map it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> May 12, 2014 Masaharu Kitaoka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuel Huntington describes the world as Western Europe, Eastern Orthodox Church, Islam, Africa, Latin America, Chinese, Hindu, Buddhist, and Japanese. It is divided into 9 civilizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"481\" height=\"237\" src=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SamuelH_20200527.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SamuelH_20200527.png 481w, http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SamuelH_20200527-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Certainly, Japanese culture is difficult to understand from the outside, and this Huntington theory is intuitively understandable. However, since there are various other countries in the world, there remains a question as to whether it is true or is there numerical support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, I decided to make a map using Hofstede&#8217;s cultural value to illustrate this situation of Japanese culture&#8217;s isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An index for measuring the cultural distance between countries is the Kogut-Shin index. In order to quantify the risk of a company&#8217;s overseas expansion, it is defined as follows using the Hofstede&#8217;s index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"253\" height=\"61\" src=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kogutsin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1355\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>here,<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDij is the cultural distance between i-country and j-country,<br> Ijk is the i-country k-th Hofstede index<br> Vk is the variance of the k-th Hofstede index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kogout and Singh have shown that this index correlates with the percentage of joint venture choices that firms make when expanding abroad. However, if the sum of squares is defined as a distance as it is, it does not match the mathematical concept of distance, so it is better to take the square root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"884\" height=\"738\" src=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpainCentered_20200527.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpainCentered_20200527.png 884w, http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpainCentered_20200527-300x250.png 300w, http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/SpainCentered_20200527-768x641.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure above shows a map of Spain and its neighboring countries using this distance. 31 countries are within the distance of 1 from Spain. In the figure, the Y-axis is an indicator of individualism vs. collectiveism, and the higher the level, the stronger individualism. The X-axis is the perspective related to other indicators, the countries with strong masculinity on the right (countries with gender roles), and the countries with strong femininity on the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The map below is drawn around Japan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"884\" height=\"738\" src=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JapanCentered_20200527.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JapanCentered_20200527.png 884w, http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JapanCentered_20200527-300x250.png 300w, http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JapanCentered_20200527-768x641.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, Hungary is the only one country within the distance of 1 from Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you calculate how many countries (or areas) are included in this distance = 1 in the countries or areas where the Hofstede index is measured, it will be as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Country name<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Number of neighboring countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighboring countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Croatia, Spain, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Thailand, Morocco, Peru, Malta, Poland, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Iran, Slovenia, Greece, France, India, Portugal, Indonesia, Colombia, Luxembourg, Venezuela, Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, Arab countries, Bangladesh, East Africa, Argentina, West Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Uruguay, Thailand, Malta, Brazil, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Poland, Bulgaria, Argentina, Greece, Chile, Portugal, Slovenia, Pakistan, Serbia, Romania, Peru, Morocco, Arab Countries, El Salvador, Iran, Finland , Italy, Belgium, East Africa, Israel, Estonia, Bangladesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uruguay, Brazil, Croatia, Spain, Bulgaria, Serbia, Malta, Romania, Chile, Peru, Pakistan, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, Thailand, El Salvador, Poland, Arab Countries, Argentina, Bangladesh, Czech Republic, France, East Africa, Morocco, Mexico, Iran, Luxembourg, Colombia, Russia, Indonesia, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand, Turkey, Peru, Spain, Trinidad And Tobago, Serbia, Taiwan, Slovenia, Vietnam, Romania, Uruguay, Portugal, Brazil, Bangladesh, East Africa, Croatia, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Chile, El Salvador, Colombia, Arab Countries, Iran, Hong Kong , Argentina, Mexico, Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, West Africa, Morocco<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Spain, Slovenia, Pakistan, Thailand, Russia, Malta, Czech Republic, Indonesia, France, Peru, Uruguay, Portugal, Greece, El Salvador, Taiwan, Poland, South Korea, Luxembourg, India, Mexico, Morocco, Bulgaria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Chile, East Africa, Arab countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arab countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morocco, Mexico, Brazil, Iran, Bangladesh, Philippines, Turkey, Thailand, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, El Salvador, Argentina, Poland, Croatia, Romania, India, Serbia, Uruguay, Chile, Spain, Pakistan, Trinidad And Tobago, Malaysia, Portugal , Malta, Indonesia, West Africa, East Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Trinidad And Tobago, Uruguay, Vietnam, East Africa, Chile, Peru, Pakistan, Iran, Brazil, West Africa, El Salvador, Bangladesh, Arab Countries, Croatia, Slovenia, Morocco, Indonesia, Portugal, Spain, Colombia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania , Argentina, Mexico, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Croatia, Philippines, Thailand, India, Turkey, Serbia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Mexico, Romania, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Morocco, Iran, Chile, El Salvador, Spain, Trinidad And Tobago, East Africa, Arab countries, West Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal, Uruguay, Thailand, Turkey, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Spain, Venezuela, Trinidad And Tobago, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Pakistan, Arab Countries, East Africa, Argentina, Croatia, Mexico, Morocco, Iran, West Africa, Greece , Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Malta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand, Iran, West Africa, Bangladesh, Arab Countries, Brazil, Pakistan, Morocco, Vietnam, Trinidad And Tobago, Indonesia, Peru, Chile, India, Turkey, Croatia, Hong Kong, Philippines, El Salvador, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Slovenia, Malaysia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bulgaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Salvador<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru, Portugal, Uruguay, Turkey, Thailand, Serbia, Slovenia, Greece, Morocco, Mexico, Pakistan, Romania, Iran, Spain, Venezuela, Malta, Trinidad And Tobago, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Arab countries, Croatia, West Africa, East Africa, Bangladesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulgaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Croatia, Turkey, Serbia, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, South Korea, Pakistan, Czech Republic, France, Malta, Chile, Indonesia, Greece, Thailand, Peru, Uruguay, Portugal, Luxembourg, Brazil, Bangladesh, Belgium, East Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luxembourg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switzerland, Spain, Malta, Turkey, New Zealand, Poland, Netherlands, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Estonia, France, Finland, Lithuania, Canada, Israel, Belgium, Brazil, Austria, Croatia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Argentina, Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uruguay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal, El Salvador, Chile, Peru, Turkey, Spain, Argentina, Greece, Malta, Brazil, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Thailand, Morocco, Poland, Arab countries, Romania, Iran, Colombia, Mexico, Bulgaria, Pakistan, East Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru, Portugal, El Salvador, Slovenia, Uruguay, Thailand, Turkey, Croatia, Spain, Serbia, Pakistan, Romania, Iran, Morocco, Malta, Greece, Colombia, Brazil, East Africa, Bulgaria, Arab Countries, Argentina, West Africa, Bangladesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain, Poland, Turkey, Uruguay, Portugal, Serbia, Romania, Morocco, Slovenia, Peru, France, Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Croatia, Belgium, Italy, Bulgaria, Chile, El Salvador, Israel, Arab countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morocco<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Thailand, Peru, Poland, Uruguay, Trinidad And Tobago, Philippines, Spain, Venezuela, Pakistan, Arab Countries, Iran, Argentina, West Africa, Mexico, Brazil, East Africa, Colombia, El Salvador, Bangladesh, Chile, India, Malta, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Slovenia, Uruguay, Spain, Thailand, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Russia, Bangladesh, Peru, Chile, El Salvador, Portugal, Greece, Arab countries, Pakistan, Mexico, Malta, Indonesia, Poland, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela, Morocco, Poland, Peru, Turkey, Philippines, Serbia, Romania, Uruguay, Pakistan, Thailand, Trinidad And Tobago, Arab countries, Colombia, Brazil, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Argentina, West Africa, Greece, Iran, Croatia, East Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serbia, Turkey, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Uruguay, Thailand, Croatia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Chile, Arab countries, Peru, Portugal, El Salvador, Mexico, Greece, Pakistan, Malta, Poland, France, Indonesia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Argentina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morocco, Uruguay, Poland, Iran, Spain, Malta, Turkey, Brazil, Peru, El Salvador, Greece, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, Trinidad And Tobago, Chile, Israel, Thailand, Pakistan, Luxembourg, Arab States, East Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morocco, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Turkey, Uruguay, Spain, Pakistan, Mexico, East Africa, Arab countries, West Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Colombia, Finland, Bangladesh, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, Serbia, Turkey, Romania, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, East Africa, India, Croatia, China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Arab countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Columbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador, Trinidad And Tobago, Morocco, Pakistan, Thailand, Iran, Uruguay, Turkey, Portugal, Arab Countries, West Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Bangladesh, East Africa, Chile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Czech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luxembourg, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Malta, Switzerland, Turkey, Poland, Estonia, India, Hungary, Pakistan, Taiwan, Lithuania, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain, Turkey, Uruguay, Romania, Serbia, Malta, Argentina, Brazil, Greece, France, Mexico, Italy, Morocco, Czech Republic, Arab countries, Croatia, Hungary, Belgium, Luxembourg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uruguay, Slovenia, Turkey, Spain, Serbia, Thailand, Romania, El Salvador, Chile, Peru, Greece, Brazil, Croatia, Malta, Argentina, Bulgaria, Pakistan, Arab countries, Colombia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Singapore, Iran, Turkey, Thailand, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, East Africa, Brazil, Arab Countries, Czech Republic, Croatia, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malta, Turkey, Uruguay, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Peru, Romania, Mexico, Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina, El Salvador, Croatia, Bulgaria, Chile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slovenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey, Thailand, Uruguay, Spain, Chile, Croatia, Portugal, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Peru, Brazil, El Salvador, Pakistan, Russia, East Africa, Malta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arab countries, Iran, Morocco, Thailand, Trinidad And Tobago, Colombia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, Malaysia, Pakistan, East Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malta, Spain, Luxembourg, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Romania, Lithuania, Serbia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Estonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republic of Trinidad and Tobago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela, Iran, Colombia, East Africa, West Africa, Thailand, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Argentina, Arab Countries, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switzerland, Luxembourg, Poland, Malta, Spain, United States, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, France, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norway, Netherlands, Latvia, Luxembourg, Israel, Sweden, New 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Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan is one of the countries with the fewest neighbors along with Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2014 Masaharu Kitaoka Samuel Huntington describes the world as Western Europe, Eastern Orthodox Church &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mkitaoka.biz\/?p=1353\" class=\"more-link\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quantify the isolation of Japanese culture and map it<\/span> <span 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