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Shiawase Damashii ETIQUETTE
• Be polite. Never lose your temper. Always show respect. Never violate this rule.
• Make yourself knowledgeable—not only in Japanese business customs, but Shinto as well. The more cultured you appear, the less likely you will be regarded as expendable.
• Bring a meishi. A meishi is a business card. Even in this wireless age you are expected to present a meishi printed on real paper. Don’t show off, though. Having a card that’s more elaborate than your boss’s can cost you points.
• Note how you’re addressed. This will indicate what the speaker thinks of you. Shadowrunners are rarely addressed with the honorific suffix –san. Being a criminal, the best you can usually hope for is a –hikoku (defendant) or –yogisha (suspect). If he calls you a burakumin, he sees you as expendable.
• Call your Johnson “Naka-udo-san.” Naka-udo is the internal Shiawase name for a professional go-between. (Actually, a naka-udo is an archaic name for a professional marriage arranger, a function that is currently regaining popularity.) Just by knowing this, you will distinguish yourself from the riffraff your Shiawase Johnsons usually deal with.
• Watch out for sokaiya runs. No, sokaiya ain’t milk. A sokaiya run is a specialized type of shadowrun in which you’ll be required to attend a shareholder meeting of a rival corporation or corporate takeover target. Your job will be to disrupt the meeting and cause the rival to lose face or to dig up dirt and blackmail it. Sokaiya runs are very well paid because they demand a high degree of flair and fine instincts.
• Be aware of genchi genbutsu. Genchi genbutsu— “Go and see for yourself”—is a guiding principle in
Shiawase Damashii. Following this principle, Shiawase security personnel do not rely solely on sensor feeds
and other forms of remote observation. If an alarm sounds, someone will come and check out the situation.
You can count it. The trick is to make genchi genbutsu work for you.
• Never say things directly. It’s highly impolite. The art of beating around the bush is called ishin-denshin, in
case you’re looking for a class or chip on the topic.
• If you screw up, apologize. Never blame others. It just increases your shame.
• Hurry. If you run against Shiawase, the MFID will be your most dire enemy. MFID personnel make extensive
use of external sources, private eyes, tabs, even holistic probability models. The more time that passes between your briefing and the start of your shadowrun, the greater the chance the MFID has already alerted Shiawase security or is hot on your tail.
• Don’t follow this list blindly. Remember, Shiawase divisions and their subsidiaries have great autonomy
in how they do business. And countless Shiawase people outside of Japan have never heard of a meishi,
naka-udo, or burakumin before.
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