Out of Pallavi Aiyer’s four-year stay in Japan comes a memoir on her impressions as an Indian of a society that values silence, organisation and honesty.“Japan is a society built on trust and a sense of community,” she says in this podcast discussion with Sidharth Bhatia. She gives her own example of how her wallet was found within hours of a visit to the police station.But the Japanese are not as homogenous a people as they generally believe, contends Aiyer.The Japanese understand that Buddhism came from India, so modern India comes as a “culture shock”. They find it difficult to deal with Indian ways of operation and management, she says.