During the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of ?internationalizing.? At the same time, Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people ?Japanese-style industrial relations? came to mean the ?three sacred treasures?: lifetime employment, seniority wages and enterprise unionism. During the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of ?internationalizing.? At the same time, Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people ?Japanese-style industrial relations? came to mean the ?three sacred treasures?: lifetime employment, seniority wages and enterprise unionism.