Shun is actually ground at 16 degrees, and interestingly, not the 15 degrees that many companies consider the "Japanese" angle. The right angles for your knife will highly depend on the knife's edge stability and hardness, and of course purpose. A typical American and European knife will have the edge fold over with these angles, and even at the 22 degree angle, as evident due to the common use of steels to realign the burr during honing. Most high end cutlery steels at about 60 HRC or higher will easily take a 15 degree angle and hold it well, and can handle nearly any task except dealing with bones. The overall geometry of the knife, especially the thickness behind the edge is considerably more important in my opinion, at 15 degrees the edge bevel should be kept very small, 0.5mm or less on a good chef knife, ideally the size of a microbevel. The back bevel would be more acute of course.