Masculinity
Japan is a much more masculine country than USA. Moto takes great pride in his achievments such as being a top English student at University, knowledge about US history and customs and also taking ettiquete lessons to be more knowledgeable. Most of the skills his accumalated can be seen in his business card which the Americans are quick to dismiss by not even looking at it.
We can also see that the Americans are quite masculine since they interrupt the talk by bragging about being “best in the business”. The boss also wants to show off his house that “he had an architect” build for his wife (amplifying the different gender roles in American society). Some more feminine values can be seen from Kubushevsky when he complies with the requests from Moto of seeing more papers. He works towards integration and harmony. Another big difference is when Moto says that Tokyo might understand that the lawyer was female since this was America.