Meticulous Japanese

This, is a pack of pasta sauce. But it is not an ordinary one, because it's made in Japan. Can you spot anything special?

Ignore the Japanese but look carefully at this part.

Yup. That's right. "Food for ages 0-100". Yeah, Japanese do always come up with weird ideas. Remember the "Please take it! You taste just delicious." printed on the label of a can of oranges? (Refer to: Japanese Sense of Humour, May 19, 2006.)

But that's not all. See this small, punched hole?

That, is not done without purpose. As shown in the instruction, it comes in handy when you're heating up the pasta sauce in a pot - stick a chopstick through that hole to get it out from the boiling water.

Who could have thought of such an idea? Only a Japanese would. Because Japanese are usually meticulous to the smallest details.

There's a joke about the stereotypical view on Japanese meticulousness:

Two factories - one in Russia and one in Japan - are given the same instructions to make a particular product. The condition, though, is that at least 99% of the products must be up to a certain quality.

Upon accepting the job, the Russian engineers set off fixing their machines in order to meet the requirement. The Japanese engineers however, scratch their heads, wondering how they're supposed to do that without given "the instructions for making the 1% of defective goods".

Well, compare this with the Malaysian "tidak apa (nevermind)" attitude... No wonder we're so behind... And yet, we're still wondering what's wrong with the nation.