I'm not quite sure how to pitch my comments here. I feel irritated by a lot of the previous comments, but I'll try to be analytical.
1. This is a newspaper report. We all know how unreliable they are.
2. We have no idea what really happened.
3. We have no idea of what was, or wasn't said in the cockpit.
4. We have no idea about the reporting that occurred internally in JAL.
5. We have no idea of what reporting occurred between JAL and JCAB.
6. We all know that humans make mistakes. People who live in glass houses etc etc.
7. The Japanese airlines are as good as the western airlines. In Asia they (along with the Hong Kong carriers) stand out as being in a class of their own.
8. This is presumably a first rate crew, in a first rate aircraft, in a first rate company, in a first rate country - and we do the following.
a. demand execution.
b. demean them racially and culturally.
c. fail to see that the real lesson from CRM is to recognise that we all could make the same mistake.
I conclude that I would more happily fly with JAL than the airlines represented here by shallow, vindictive, insular and racist gits.