Not all M-times and P-times are the same. There and loose versions of each. The Japanese, for example, in the official business side of their lives where people do not meet on highly personalized basis, provide us an excellent example of tight M-time. When an American professor, business person technical expert, or consultant he may find that his time is like a carefully packed trunk-so tightly packed, in fact, that it is impossible to squeeze one more thing into the container On a recent trip to Japan, I was contacted by a well-known colleague who had translated one of my earlier books. He wanted to see me and asked if he could pick me up at my hotel twelve-fifteen so we could have lunch together. I had situated myself in the lobby a few minutes early, as the Japanese are almost always prompt. At twelve-seventeen, I could see his tense figure darting through the crowd of arriving business people and politicians who had collected near the door. Following greetings, he ushered me outside to the ubiquitous black limousine with chauffeur, with white doilies covering the arms and headrests. The door of the car had hardly closed when he started outlining our schedule for the lunch period by saying that he had an appointment at three o’clock to do a TV broadcast. That set the time limit and established the basic parameters in which everyone knew where he would be at any given part of the agenda. He stated these limits a little over two hours taking travel time into account.