Japanese Business Culture

International business requires a deep level of industry insight but also a keen understanding of the cultural differences that impact how business is done. If you’re an American working in China or Japan for the first time, you may not realize the way each culture thinks and reasons is quite different from your own, which can lead to frequent misunderstandings. You may be unaware, for example, that Americans reason in a linear manner, Chinese in a lateral manner, and Japanese intuitively.

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.

Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally best-selling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people.

Written over three centuries ago by a Samurai warrior, A Book of Five Rings has been hailed as a limitless source of psychological insight for businessmen or anyone who relies on strategy and tactics to outwit the competition.

Previously published as The Singing Widow of a Buddhist Priest by Ruth Reiner, Japan Forever After is a rich, fun, spicy novel about the all-time, most impossible journey of an American woman determined to make it in Japan. When Sarah Green discovers her destiny is to tie her life with Japan, she does everything possible to make it there. This, however, comes with a price. As she climbs up the corporate ladder in her Tokyo-based, Japanese firm, everything else falls apart. Only the singing widow of a Buddhist priest, a white Persian cat, an ex-sumo champion, and a handsome mystery man can ...

企業にはいくつもの壁がある。巨大企業・日立の壁はとりわけ高い。【製造業史上最大の赤字からＶ字回復を果たした日立。しかし、そこからさらなる闘いが始まった――。】

生産技術とは、企業の工場や生産現場において生産ラインの設計や管理を行う仕事。自動化が進んでいるとはいえ、製造の過程には人間の手が欠かせず、生産技術は将来に渡ってニーズのある必要性の高い仕事といえる。本書は、生産技術業務や他の工場系の業務（生産管理・品質管理・品質保証など）についてのあるあるを、生産技術職YouTuberである著者がまとめたもの。