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Led by a growing number of scientists, businessmen and even politicians, more Japanese are going public with their foibles. The most organized manifestation of this is the government-financed Failure Database Project (shippai.jst.go.jp), which, over the last three years, has cataloged 600 or so notable blunders in Japanese society. The catalog, which was posted on the Web in March, will be used to help instructors plan motivational workshops on the beauty of failure.

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