6. There is the general tendency to avoid a logical approach. In the country's political world, a compromise often comes out of the process of "adding differences and dividing them by two" and a settlement is worked out usually through efforts to even things up. In the business world, vague trading practices are going on under the pretext of maintaining long-term relations of trust and this trend has often come under fire from abroad. Japanese people tend to avoid settling a problem on the basis of logic, specifically for fear of inviting a personal conflict.