Engineers’ becoming a top salesperson
2020年9月28日 Philosophy
Yang, a Seiwajuku member and a president of a uniform distribution company, asked Mr. Inamori * how his company can reinforce the sales department as Yang is not good at sales. Mr. Inamori shared with Yang important tips on how to improve the sales performance of Yang company. The tips are as follows; 1 The …
Kyoto: the most efficient two parties’ democracy is realized
2020年9月26日 Japanese Society
Recently, when I was discussing with presidents of small to middle size businesses in greater Kyoto, I found out that Kyoto is probably a quite unique city where “two parties’ democracy” has been realized in the local community. According to Kyoto governors’ transition described in Wikipedia, 1950-1978, the communist party was the ruling party in …
Remaining ground lease term is short, what should we do?
2020年9月24日 Japanese Society
In Japan, especially for the prime locations, landlords do not want to sell the property rights. Japanese historically and generally have strong emotional attachments towards the land. Thus, ground lease has been quite common in Japan. If non-Japanese investors find a good property in Japan but the land tenure is a lease hold …
Jyomon people and hunting
2020年9月22日 Japanese Culture
In the past articles, Mr.Kato mentioned that Jyomon people were maritime people. However, in the latest article in No.47, he also pointed out Jyomon people’s major proficiency: hunting. The notable features of Jyomon hunters are as follows; 1 Breeding Japanese hounds 2 Developing Instinctive five senses 3 The root cause of discrimination 1 …
The scientific mechanism: why your mindset drives financial results?
2020年9月21日 Philosophy
Mr. Inamori* made a speech “The meaning of life “in New York in 2008, just after the Lehman brothers’ clash. He is a successful entrepreneur in Japan who developed Kyocera and KDDI, both of which accounts for around 80 billion USD in sales. Some of the audience may have expected to listen to his strategy …
Fundamental reasons for Hotel bankruptcy
2020年9月18日 Market Trend
In Japan, several hotel under performance and bankruptcy cases have been seen since COVID-19 pandemic appeared in this Feb. However, a hotel consultancy mentioned that before COVID, hotel industry had already been saturated in supply even for the increasing demand and financial conditions of so-called budget hotels had been unhealthy. I had a discussion with …
Why the famous JPs drama irritates us? Idiot leader in Japan
2020年9月16日 Japanese Society
Naoki Hanzawa, well know Japanese TV drama, which has become a trend or phenomena in Japan, demonstrated a lot of issues in Japanese society. Mr. Hiroyuki Kobayashi, former top mega bank banker, highlights those issues over this program through his SNS together with his comments. https://www.facebook.com/hiroyuki.kobayashi.31/posts/3101415693241079 (https://www.tbs.co.jp/hanzawa_naoki/) One of the wired topics demonstrated in …
The secret of Japanese companies: Japanese leadership
2020年9月14日 Philosophy
The essence of Japanese leadership Why did Japanese companies grow so fast- Top leaders’ mindset- Mr. Inamori*, the Honorary Chairman of Kyocera, talked about the ethics of top management. This also shows the secret of the resilience of Japanese companies. He shared his experience of discussing with the factory manager of Kyocera America. The …
The location criteria of data center
2020年9月12日 Market Trend
Since the COVID -19 pandemic appeared, we have been forced to change our life as well as working styles. Most investors’ intentions have been focusing on residential, logistics and hospitality assets and one of the new directions is data center. Today, I would like to spend some time to analyze the best data center location …
The game soft can be used for political campaign?
2020年9月10日 Japanese Society
Ishiba, one of the candidates for the liberal democratic party head, shared his idea that he was going to use his avatar character in a game “ Animal Crossing New Horizons” as part of his election champaign. However, due to the prohibited purposes stipulated in the game guideline, Ishiba gave up taking that approach. In …
