I have, and still are, very critical about the way japanese companies operate (not only in motorsport). And as I have written before I think the Toyota WRC project will be a massive failure (not because of Mäkkinen) because they will do the same stupid decisions like Honda in F1 has annouced.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120287

If anybody was ever in doubt on why Japan is a shadow of its former glory, it's because of their pathetic nationalist way of doing things. They refuse to take input from something non-japanese. I doubt even Mäkkinen can change that...