CRM perhaps
seems as if we acually are only human.... I live in Japan now and Japanese people have a very difficult time making their own decisions- this is installed in them from JHS Junior High School.
The cultural differences have been apparant in other accidents also. I wrote a paper on CRM for the University of Glasgow and the results suggested that the cultural difference between countires and pilots play a bit part in the undermining of the CRM principle.
The Japanese Co-Pilot will rather follow instructions implictly from the Captain rather than disagree. Very bad in some circumstances. In other countries this is still true, but not but not as strong in my research.
Scott