A Comparative Study of Corporate Culture in Japan and Taiwan: Differences, Causes, and Development Trends

Japan and Taiwan are both located in East Asia and have similar workplace cultures.Taiwan was once colonized by Japan and was inevitably influenced by Japanese culture. Over the years, as one of the four Asian tigers, Taiwan has many well-known companies and a unique workplace culture. For example, Sony and Panasonic in Japan, TSMC and Foxconn in Taiwan, these companies are world leaders in their research fields.This paper explores the differences in workplace culture between Japan and Taiwan, and analyzes them from multiple dimensions, such as trade unions, workplace hierarchy, employment methods, overtime culture, and attitudes towards work and life. It systematically compares the characteristics of workplace culture in Japan and Taiwan and explains the reasons. For example, Japan's corporate culture is influenced by the Bushido spirit and requires loyalty, while Taiwan's corporate culture is influenced by a variety of factors, including mainland China, the Japanese colonial period, and Europe and the United States.At the same time, it evaluates the characteristics of workplace culture in Japan and Taiwan, explains the advantages and disadvantages of each workplace culture, for example, although Japan's workplace culture ensures employee loyalty to the company, the system is too rigid, which is not conducive to the flexible development of modern enterprises and dampens the enthusiasm of young people. Although Taiwanese companies are more flexible in employment, the job-hopping rate is very high, resulting in poor technical accumulation and finally summarizes the future development trend of workplace culture in the two places, explores the future optimization direction, and provides reference for cross-cultural exchanges between enterprises in the two places.

Japanese culture, Taiwanese culture, workplace culture, East Asia, labor union, Craftsmanship, Overtime culture, Hierarchy, collectivism, Bushido