Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987 Page: 49
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Marcello:
Van Nostrand:
Marcello:
Van Nostrand:our policies would be protected and observed.
How did this work out?
Fine. I don't know of any instance during the time I was
there where any dispute ever came to the point of people
reciting the contracts clause for clause or saying that
"this was something that should go to arbitration," if that's
what the article called for, or that "this is a situation
that should go to legal definition." Again, part of it is
because we are more preoccupied with the importance of the
written word than the Japanese ever have been. At the time
I was there, they only had eight hundred lawyers in the
country, and they weren't fully employed (chuckle) because
the Japanese personality, born of his culture, with 125
million people living on a little bitty island, calls for
compromise rather than confrontation as a means of daily
life and daily satisfaction of problems. So the Japanese
is the master compromiser.
Describe the relationship that developed between Caltex
and MITI.
In the early years, it was direct in that Caltex was enter-
ing the petroleum economy on a direct basis--I mentioned the
service stations and bulk terminals--and the Caltex people
tramped the government offices as we do here in order to
achieve some sort of relationship with the government so that
they would know who we were and what we were doing. Later,
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Van Nostrand, Stephen E. Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987, book, April 20, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306889/m1/51/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.