But I might say a little bit about the Japanese as people, because that is quite interesting and it is different from what we are perhaps used to in Europe. In my experience they are enormously courteous, they are very helpful, they are very precise in what they are doing and overarchingly honest. I have seen Masuo, for example, stop at a telephone booth in downtown Tokyo, put his briefcase down, go into the telephone booth, come out and pick up his briefcase again.

If you go into a store, you see an article that you would like, and the girl serving behind the counter will come out with a wrapped parcel. And at first I felt a little uncomfortable because there are some places in England where you wouldn’t be perhaps quite sure that what was there was precisely what you had been looking at, it may have perhaps been a second or something like that, but that would never happen, never even occur to the Japanese.

And they have a very keen sense of privacy and rightness – you’ve seen them, of course, bowing, the courtesy is there, they have a great sense of history and they are a people much to be admired. We have had a marvellous time there.