The real value of being stable

In Japan people are going to worry about the future life and instability. So some seek to become stable, sacrificing their future and lifestyle(marriage or having a baby) to save money to be stable. This is curious because the virtue of lifestyle may be more valuable than just to be stable.

Lack of resource, talented people

Japan is a island country and is said that there needs resource from abroad because there are not enough amount of resource( oil and energy for example). And now the lack resource is manpower. Japanese society is short of talented people who are willing to do work as much as possible and have clear opinion responsible for.

Going to Asia

According to today's Newspaper export to developing area is growing now almost up to half of the world. This means that the relationship to those area(especially Asia) is going to be more and more important. What we teach and know formerly was rather related to developed area and US and EU area. We also educate ourselves the history and culture in Asian developing area. 

Public sector's new role

In this long depression business minds of people and companies in Japan is now rather cold. Under this circumstance the role of public sector may be changed. The new role of them is to show new business model or expand the demands of those business. Formerly public sector should not invade the business area of private sector. But now this new role is going to be discussed, I think.

Recall system works?

The recall campaign of Nagoya City Council is going to be a failure because of a lot of invalid voting. This will raise the mind of what the democracy is in Japan and the decision of the Election Administration Committee turns out to be a very serious issue.

How to get good influence from Asian power?

In Asia people with powerful and strong will are increasing and they may change this area to be one of the best growing area. We Japanese should know and be influenced by those people. But on the other hand, we do not have enough chance to meet those people and feel those trends directly. Then what should we do? I think that Internet community is important for us to know what the real Asia is going on. We should master and use heavily to communicate and getting more and more information from Asian growing area.

All 20' s must be go abroad

According to today's NIKKEI, big commercial firms are going to start new training and study program for 20's workers. In those program they must experience to work and live abroad for working abroad in the future. This is adjusting to global trend.

What international students need?

Nowadays Japanese University have to be changed adjusting to today's globalization in many aspect; for example economy,business and lifestyle. Students inside those University should be announced what is the real globalization going on and become in the future. Then, it is very informative for us to hear from international students in Japan. What they expected and what they can get and cannot in Japanese University. 

Gendai Yougo

I bought famous Japanese Encyclopedia of contemporary words "Gendai Yougo No Kisotishiki" yesterday. This book is published once a year. And when I get this book, the year-end is coming. Even if we can get many information from the Internet, this kind of book is needed because its handy and we can know the relation between one information and another, and also know the changing of word. 

GM return to the market

Yesterday GM' stock go back to the market(IPO) and this US famous and symbolic company's revival get people better feelings about the market and economy. This revival takes only 17 months from the bankruptcy. We Japanese should know and learn this speed revival mind.

Inequality in election

The inequality of vote right in election became big issues in Japan. The inequality is up over 1:5! It means one has 1 vote right but another one has only 0.2 or less vote right. This is clear inequality. But it takes many times to correct. Why? This is serious problem in Japanese policy.

Moving office

Last night  I came back from NAGOYA by SHINKANSEN express train. There were a lot of people who reading magazine and newspaper, and some were doing their work using Laptop computer. This was like "Moving office". This moving office image may change this stable office and work in Japanese companies.

Clear process and rule is needed

According to today's NIKKEI column "KEIZAI-KYOSITU",the Japanese trust law is operated by pre-conference process"JIZEN-SODAN" that is closed. This is very serious problem in cooperating process in Japan. What is OK and what is ban is unclear and this make companies refrain from cooperating actively.

The new TV system arose.

Yesterday night I watched "RYOMA-DEN"(Japanese popular TV drama) with over1,000 people through  u-stream Internet TV system. This event was held in a hall of KOCHI-city where RYOMA has born. Through the Internet I can watch the lecture and discussion about RYOMADEN in this holl and attend the discussion,using Twitter. This is real interactive TV !

Study by English

Yesterday I attended some Study group where people can study management by English. So students also learn English for tool. They discussed management theme actively.

Challenging project 'change KASUMIGASEKI'

According to today's ASAHI-SHINBUN, two former officials are going to found company for changing and encouraging Japan and Japanese people.Their project is refered to SAKAMOTO                              
RYOMA famous Japanese man of noble ideals.

GOPAN boom

SANYO DENKI(Japanese electrical equipment maker) has started the new machine 'GOPAN' yesterday. This machine is baking bread from rice(GOHAN in Japanese). The wheat is poor harvest this year because of the unusual climate on the other hand rice is good and reasonable price. And also there are many people who like rice made bread because of its consistency or out of allergy.

Small business also become globalized

According to NIKKEI, small and medium sized enterprise of snack makers are going to do overseas expansion by oneself not join with some big companies. This means that some Japanese small companies is now developing their own management skills to adjust to global market. This is good news for Japanese business also.

SHIRETOKO Natuinal Trust success

SHIRETOKO National Trust has finished to get land 471.18 hectares to save environment. This news is very good news for those National Trust movement. This will turn out to be one of the pioneer in this field.

To be patient

Nowadays the speed of social change is very slow. This makes peoples think slowly and not to be able to keep up with this change. In Japan this types of problem exists wholly. That is the problem.

Lotte win Japan series title

Yesterday Lotte get the title after long and game to Chunichi. The game was very exciting because both team never give up when the rival got point and exceeded. This never give up mind may moved the fans.

Old home town makes me refreshed

Yesterday I visited KODAIRA and KUNITACHI City where I lived when I was a university student. Those home town raise a feeling how was the university days and how I have changed from what I am in those days.

DONGURI BANK

According to ASAHI NEWS, there are several "DONGURI BANK" in Japan which collects acorns(DONGURI) to use for tree-planting campaign. Under the long and low interest rate in Japanese cash market, this not cash but DONGURI BANK's rate is much higher and suitable for investment. 

E-publishing company started

According to NIKKEI, Mr.Murakami Ryu (famous Japanese writer) has founded electric publishing company and announced yesterday. He said that many writers were left and forgotten under the chaotic situation of e-publishing and publishing business.This message is very thought-provoking. In Japan this e-publishing business scene is one example of complex interest around business. 

Midterm election in US

The Democratic Party became into difficult situation after this Midterm election. This means that under this depression political decision have to be difficult and if the government is going to spend money to support peoples health and lives, then many other people disagree to this expenditure because of National finance.

What is important is..

We should notice to what we have, not to what we do not have. We often confuse those two things.When we notice lack matter, we do not become satisfied with present situation and always complain. We should think and feel gratitude in order to have good and happy life. 

Mismatch increase

According to NIKKEI, the mismatch between job and jobhunter increased nowadays. Some types of education can and should solve this gap and the government and non government organization cooperate each other to do this policy. We should think and do to it also.