Toyota 's handling of the financial crisis has elements of a culture shock . Difficult , too , will be how Toyoda handles hostile questioning , especially since most of his public experience has been before a largely deferential Japanese press . Toyota 's long silence is a hallmark of the Japanese culture of consensus control . Toyota has little experience dealing with hostile questions from the public .
Toyota 's handling of the financial crisis has elements of a culture shock . Toyota 's long silence is a hallmark of the Japanese culture of consensus control . Toyota has little experience dealing with hostile questions from the public .