Working in foreign company

I am working in foreign company. I worked in a small Japanese company, and the company was acquired in American company. After acquisition, I was surprised at a lot of difference between a Japanese company and a foreign company.

The biggest point I think is the way of thinking. Japanese think always negatively, but foreign people always positively. For example, in Japanese company, we often share failure cases because we think we won't make the same mistake again if we share failure cases together. In my previous company, when someone had made a big mistake, the person had to make a presentation about the mistake in front of all of our colleagues, and apologize their mistake.

On the other hand, in foreign company, we often share best practices. Someone who implemented a great job makes a presentation, and everyone praise the person.

In business situation, Japanese often accuse colleagues who had failure. "Why you made such a mistake?", "Why you couldn't accomplish your sales target?", and something like that. They do nothing more than complaining about their colleagues. I think it is not constructive.

But in foreign company, people don't accuse colleagues but try to solve the problem instead. They consider the way of solution. They are not focusing on the person making a mistake but the problem happened.

I think Japanese have a strong sense of camaraderie, and sometimes this might lead to a strong teamwork. But Japanese should more focus on the whole of the business not the personal problem. If we do that, we wl realize that accusing colleagues is not important and we should solve the problem instead.