Tieu-Tieu Le Phung

Confucian ethics (broadly construed) might in principle be fairer but in practice maybe not at all as watertight in certain social climates. I am thinking of the way Japanese business culture was once (still is?) permeated with yakuza gangster values grafted onto already rigid social rules and etiquette. Interestingly the yakuza profess to subscribe to many of the virtues mentioned in Ye Sheng's paper, albeit implemented in a twisted way.

Disclosure: I have just binge-watched both seasons of Tokyo Vice and immediately thereafter read the nonfiction book on which the TV series was based.

Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan [memoir], 2009.

Ye Sheng, "Confucius and Relationship Marketing" https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/pcharm/article/view/1634/1473