Sounds very Japanese.
Meetings are not about "let's find solutions together" but about "this is what we're doing and this is how you're going to comply with that".
Emails are all answered in chronological order and not in order of importance, and everything must go through several layers of management to make sure everything is OK.
When emails do go through, then it's not uncommon to have endless exchanges because every little detail must be thoroughly explained.
Then, we have the general poor English level and the endless meeting (up to several hours a day).
In Japanese companies the process is often as important as the result. That's why they can't compete these days.
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