Many say it reflects the communal nature of Japanese society, developed in the rice paddies and reflected in the time-worn adage, "the nail that sticks up will be hammered down."

I hope it gave you a sense of its communal ethiC as opposed to an individual morality, the idea that the actions of every individual have an impact on society as a whole.

However, in latter-day China, poverty of the country and penury of its people, and lack of communal awareness of the society became the key restrictive factors of the donative effects.