What Is Division System?
Konosuke Matsushita: Vitalizing the Division System (divisional system) By M. Emi The Konosuke Matsushita Museum (Osaka, Japan) is currently presenting a special exhibition entitled "Konosuke Matsushita: Vitalizing the Division System", which will be available to the public until June 29, 2013. “This is one of the major exhibitions at the Konosuke Matsushita Museum in 2013. […]
Business Training in Japan Is Not Popular. OJT Is Popular. Why?
By R. Kopp Allow me to share three recent incidents related to training that took place at Japanese companies in the U.S.: An American discovered that his Japanese colleague wasn’t happy for him leaving the factory floor to come attend a training session. A training session was scheduled that seven Japanese were supposed to attend, […]
Nitobe Inazo and "Bushido"
Who is Nitobe Inazo? The author of "Bushido" Inazo Nitobe, author of “Bushido, The Soul of Japan”, which was published in 1899 and became a worldwide best-seller, was an important figure who represented Japan. Although this book, which was the first English-language text to systematize Bushido1, was originally written to explain the moral framework of […]
Japanese Go Online More and More
Online Percentage of Japanese People By D. McCaughan So how connected are you? In the previous column, I introduced the results of the “Truth about Connected You,” -- a global study into the way people use and think about their mobile and digital connections and how these things are changing and forming their personalities – […]
Natto: the Most Popular Fermented Food in Japan
Produced 12 million packages a day in Japan Perhaps every country has some kind of fermented food, whether it is popular in that country or not. There is Vegemite in Australia and Marmite in the UK and New Zealand, as well as surströmming in Sweden, which is rarely found in other countries but nonetheless famous […]
Haruki Murakami: Resonating Under
“Resonating Under”: Haruki Murakami Speaks in Public After 18-year Hiatus By Ryoji Shimada, staff writer “I rarely put myself in the public eye,” Haruki Murakami explained. “I don’t show myself on TV or radio. Nor do I give lectures. But for I have appeared at this event, to commemorate my mentor.” So saying, world-renowned novelist […]