Alumni association meeting

I attend Alumni association meeting yesterday. That is 20th anniversary from graduating from university. I was special thankful to have good health and be able to attend those meeting.The attendants have their own experience after becoming a working member of society.Those diverse experiences makes our conversation more interesting for us.

Mistake tells us better life

According to NEWS, there begin several new types of  TV programs which show the mistakes in usual lives and entertain ourselves. For example, the program about cooking show some amusing mistake about cooking and show how to entertain even if the cooking is not success. This types of program is brand new and suggest us capabilities of TV to entertain and get us comfortable.  

Struggle for next National economy

In developed and developing countries, economic law and rule is changing nowadays. The purpose of this change is to develop and raise their economic power, especially intellectual. For example the rule of Antitrust Law makes their companies de facto rule and decides the activities inside their countries.

Indonesian disaster

According to Today's CNN, Merapi volcano erupted and tsunami has hit because of the big earthquake and big typhoon is comming now. People in Indonesia suffered from this three natural disaster. We should think and support their life as same Asian neighbors.   

Market Price get highest level

According to NIKKEI, the market price of stock market in the world increased to highest level after the financial crisis in Sep.2008. This is a good news for economy in the near future because the market price is usually affected by how is going to be in the near future. But on the other hand Japanese market is not so good as other market.  We should think about this trend.

Why is the lunch break needed in Tokyo market?

According to NIKKEI, the Tokyo Stock Exchange shorten the lunch break from 1.5hours to 1 hour. Before this break is going to be abolished, but not done. I do not know the reason of this change, but there may be little reason of continuing the lunch break in stock market. To change and raise the Japanese Stock market seriously, this types of change must be executed immediately.

Growth leads to be public, Stability leads to be what?

Nowadays Japanese stock market lose power because people cannot expect the growth of Japanese market anymore. Japanese people are likely to be stable rather than growing. So this Japanese market cannot have proper chance to rise. To be stable is not good for Japanese people, especially for young Japanese. When people seek to grow people are going to be for public because to think and do for public is needed to grow their business. But when people seek to be stable, they protect their own rights and merit. And people are going to be more and more selfish. This trends makes young people,who do not have their own assets, difficult to change their life better. This is serious problem and one of the reasons of Japanese depression. 

Personnel management should be more enhanced

Under the economic depression, many Japanese companies do not have good idea for changing their "bureaucratic" organization adjusted to today's era. This is mainly because changing personnel management is difficult. It is most seriously unsolved problems how to manage personnel matter properly and with proper speed. We do not have clear idea to it. But we should change ourselves gradually.

Information of one's ability

In Japan it is said and believed that name of one's graduate university is important factor of one's ability. But this situation has changed nowadays because the ability of them got diverse and the needed ability has changed as social and economic situation has changed. This means that the chance of young people,who could not go to well-known university,has come. They should raise their own ability outside those univ. The place those people could study is seriously needed.

Career college boom has come

According to NIKKEI NEWS, the students who prefer career college to university is increasing nowadays. This is because they would like to have job after graduate. Under this depression, students seek their job seriously and studying those career college less expensive than university.

Where to study

According to NIKKEI NEWS, lounge for studying are increasing nowadays in Tokyo. This is because people who have job and also would like to study more to career development is also increasing. I think this is good trend as they may change themselves to adjust to today's changing economic scene. And also this may mean that old schools should rethink about what they teach now. That curriculum is proper for today's students needs? This lounge boom also teach us that people,who study oneself without going to school, is also increasing now.

Impressed by the story

I read one episode in todays' ASAHI-SHINBUN, the story is this; one student, who failed university entrance examination, become a worker in delivering the newspaper everyday. Next year he challenged the exam again, and in the morning of the exam, a lot of snow was falling and he must deliver newspaper on foot. He felt that he may become late for the examination, at that time he became aware of person who coming behind him. The person is his co-worker,also student-worker, he supported his delivery and he and his friends could pass the exam. Good and impressed story.

Regulation should be opened to society

There are a lot of business regulations in Japan. Those are effective when the purpose and content are opened and known by many people. If contrarily the purpose and content is not clear and unknown, the regulation is not effective and the situation may become worse as people and companies just avoid it or do not take business risks. This means that especially business regulations should be more and more opened and tested by society. 

What makes people a good leader?

Recently we Japanese needs good leader of country, company and family because there is fast changing and few idea to manage that. But we do not know how we can find the candidate of those leader. Then we should grow those leader rather than find. What makes people a good leader? That is the point. I think it is something like "skill" rather than "character". So we can train a good leader by some education and training programs.

33 people has been rescued.

In Chile mine,33 people has been rescued yesterday. This type of rescue story get us many valuable thinking and become aware of what "team work" is. Never-giveup-mind and optimistic mind leads us to success.

The discrimination has gone??

The government announced that the young female income surpassed males' in 2009. This is affected by the growing of service sector. I think that this is good news for us because we can rethink about the role of male and female workers in Japan. There were discrimination between man and woman in many work place in Japan. But this should change drastically because many women may be more able than men in many work place and the fair challenge may get the business stronger.

Go out of office worker thinking!

We needs proper strategy and doing under economic difficult situation (strong yen and long-term depression etc.). But we Japanese are not good at those creative doing especially for one's job matter. This is because we are excessively familiar with "office worker thinking" under long-long stable economy. This types of thinking is partial (not complete), so such idea has not enough power to be applied to company's management.

Hot Spring give power

I visited Hot spring area "YUGAWARA-ONSEN" last weekend with my family. This area is very famous and old ONSEN resort near Tokyo. It took about 2.5 hours from Tokyo to yugawara by car. This area is near beautiful beach and also ravine(river). So the scenery has variety and this leads visitors relaxed and give power to restart their work.

Cash Rush to growing sector?

According to newspaper, several banks are going to expand the new loan for growing sector "SEICHO-YU-SHI". This type of loan started under BOJ(Bank Of Japan)'s new types of loan to commercial banks. This growing sector is 'raising environmengt' ,'new energy'and 'health care '. Those sector are very essential for our living. So we can easily imagine the growing trend. We can expect that those loans will raise and accelerate the speed of expanding business.

How to activate the living of Japanese?

There are a lot of "assignments" in Japanese education-system. First of all, we should rethink the purpose of education under the Japanese situation in these days. And when we do so , we should  image what going on the young peoples' future. Without proper reform, the social gap between rich elder and poor young generation may leads the pessimistic atmosphere. We should avoid and break this trend.

Stop the selling struggle

Today G7 is going to start. One of the main theme is price of their currency. Nowadays many governments devaluate their currency to increase export and raise the economy under this global recession. But this trend is needed some rule or adjustment because excessive rush of devaluation may lead the excessive inflation and will damage peoples money and life.

Two Japanese won Novel prize

Yesterday Mr.Negishi and Mr. Suzuki won the Novel prize.This news got Japanese mind lively and be interested in Japanese study in scientific fields.Their study and great discovery was taken place 40years ago and those study was put to practical use(making medicine and liquid crystal). This means that the great study and research often need long time to be accepted or appreciated. This also means that there needs to be a lot of support from family,friends and co-workers. So we also needs those "team work" to accomplish great study and work.

Dabate skill is needed

In Japan it is said that students are not good at debating or supporting result. It may be because they have no chance to enjoy debating. Alternatively they are recommended to have their own idea or opinion. What happens if they have their own idea or opinion without any debating? The result is that they have only conclusion without any proper and plenty of reason. It makes their situation difficult after graduation. In real society people are needed to have reasoning. In this process, people who have only conclusion(without any reason) face the difficulty to live under the changing circumstances. 

Financial new strategy

Bank of Japan will decide the additional financial strategy today. This is very important as Japanese economy is drifting without clear destination.

New investment in steel maker

According to NIKKEI, Indian steel maker JSW are going to invest to Japanese steel maker JFE. Those two companies are going to hold stock each other. And in the future they will make blast furnace in India. And also the technical resources will be heightened because of this cooperation.

Scientific theme to public

Yesterday the iPS cell research institute of Kyoto University held  lecture to the public in order to get the general public to know what going on the study of iPS and what kind of good effect to cure disease is expected.I think this event is good chance for people to know and have interest in those scientific research. 

Pre-Entrance Ceremony

Yesterday in Japan, many companies held a ceremony for the students who are going to enter their companies next April. This event is usual in Japan because many companies employ fresh graduates at the same time.I think that this system should be changed partially for companies to employ more diverse and excellent students.

Alternative to just buying government bonds

Nowadays Japanese yen is going higher,but stock market is not active. This phenomenon is curious in the world. What is this means? Who buy the Japanese yen? I think this is Japanese banks and funds who buy Japanese governmental bonds that raise Japanese yen. But this investment strategy is also strange because the Japanese stock market is not active in these days. If Japanese funds and banks start to invest in foreign growing area or stock market in Asia growing countries, then they can get returns and also the excessive yen will go down properly. Why this rational investment do not start?