This is no harder to understand than any other clash of cultures. In Japan, Honda’s primacy is accepted, with Yamaha, Suzuki, and Kawasaki lining up behind Honda in that order. It is believed that the four Japanese motorcycle producers agreed to participate in the new series for a period of 10 years. The Japanese factories formed the MSMA (Motorcycle Sports Manufacturers’ Association) to represent them to the FIM and Dorna. Just as Honda always hires the top one percent of graduate engineers from Tokyo University every year and assumes they will be first to originate and apply new technologies, so, too, Honda assumes that its “recommendations” will have the force of law in MSMA. To Westerners, this seems undemocratic, but in Japan, it is considered right and proper.