Yeah, it's a more distinctly Japanese thing, part of how they've managed to skirt the massive labor disputes that have wracked Western developed countries, though it's mostly a mindset thing, you can see it play out like this. The company is one whole organism to them, in that from the lowest ranks to the highest, they're all dedicated to doing what's best for the company at large, so you (usually) don't get crippling greed from either labor or management, and so you end up with situations like this, instead of, say, Midway, where the executives let the company collapse while they walked off with millions, or GM, where both sides were just trying to bleed the system of money.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.