AOTS E-Newsletter: Management Training in Japan / Admissions for Hiroshima Global Academy / Insight
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<Index>
1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
2. Admissions for Hiroshima Global Academy (HiGA) for the 2025 academic year.
3. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
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1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
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Applications for the following 2 courses are now open! Don't miss out on this great opportunity!.
(1)The Training Program on Program & Project Management [PPTP].
Through lectures, organization visits, and exercises, participants will acquire systems and methods of Program & Project Management from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
Duration: From 28 October to 8 November 2024.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
How to apply: Applications will be accepted via AOTS Alumni Societies. See the Program Outline for details.
(2)The Program on Production Improvement utilizing Digital Technology [PIDT].
Improve your ability to identify issues that drive productivity by understanding Japanese manufacturers' practices and learning how to effectively implement IoT and digital technologies.
Duration: From 19 November to 2 December 2024.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
How to apply: Applications will be accepted via AOTS Alumni Societies. See the Program Outline for details.
Please visit AOTS website for more info.
https://www.aots.jp/en/what-we-do/hrd/management/subsidized/list-of-courses/
FAQ for Management Programs.
https://www.aots.jp/en/what-we-do/hrd/management/subsidized/list-of-courses/faq/
Inquiry: AOTS Overseas Cooperation Group I
E-mail: shouhei-au@aots.jp
Tel: +81-(0)3-3888-8256
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2. Admissions for Hiroshima Global Academy (HiGA) for the 2025 academic year.
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Hiroshima Global Academy (HiGA) is located on an island in Hiroshima, Japan.
We are an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School that offers the Diploma Program (DP) from Grades 10 through to 12.
Additionally, our school offers a full board dormitory system.
We are going to open Admissions for the 2025 academic year soon.
The application registration will start on the 1st of August, JST.
Click here for more detail on the Admission.
https://higa-s.jp/en/senior-high/index/application-process/
Click here for Instruction for the application for the admission for the 2025 academic year.
https://youtu.be/ClxQCeVCG60
Click here for PR video of HiGA.
https://youtu.be/X-l4GTyXj1E
[Inquiry]
higa2022@higanet.higa.ed.jp
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3. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
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Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies - July 2024
Did you know that the favorite book of Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani is The Analects and the Abacus by Eiichi Shibusawa, which explains how to balance business and morality?
In 1840, the year that Eiichi was born, there were still samurai in Japan.
During that era, there was a strict class system based on the feudal hierarchy.
Farmers, merchants, and artisans were viewed as low-class commoners, even though their existence generated wealth for society.
In contrast, the warrior class were in charge of the government, with the Tokugawa shogunate at the top.
They had control over fiefs and their residents, consuming the wealth that the common people produced.
Eiichi was born into an affluent farmer's family, although he belonged to the low-class peasantry.
Having inherited his mother's kind heart and the character of his father, a man with a love of learning that included specialized agriculture as well as accounting, Eiichi grew up to be a fine young man.
However, he would soon have an important experience that caused him to have profound doubts about the social system.
One day when he was 17 years old, the Shibusawa household suddenly received a summons from the magistrate of the domain which ruled the area.
Eiichi went to the magistrate's mansion in place of his father, who was ill in bed.
Without warning, the magistrate ordered him to pay 500 ryo to help pay for the wedding of the daimyo's daughter.
500 ryo is an amount worth more than 50 million yen today.
In response to this outrageous demand, the pure-hearted Eiichi angrily thought to himself, "Don't we work hard and pay our annual tribute as we should?
Now, on top of that, they're suddenly ordering us to contribute a huge sum against our will, with no explanation? What is this?"
Restraining his anger, he finally answered, "I am here on behalf of my father, so I will consult him and then give you our reply."
Upon hearing this, the magistrate was furious: "Why do you not agree right away? If the likes of you are commanded to pay, you should say nothing and hand over the money."
At that time, daimyo and magistrates, as members of the warrior class, were permitted to execute residents of a fief with their swords, but thanks in part to hasty intercession by others in attendance, Eiichi managed to leave the mansion safely.
Ultimately, his father settled the matter by paying the 500 ryo.
However, the experience deeply impressed on Eiichi's mind the need to transform a society where outrageous behavior was widespread-such as government officials who do not work at all arrogantly throwing their weight around as magistrates in order to take money that commoners earned by means of hard work.
In the next column, I will talk more about Eiichi's subsequent activities.
To be continued in the next edition.
Stay tuned for the next AOTS E-Newsletter.
Rikio Suma, Author
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<Index>
1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
2. Admissions for Hiroshima Global Academy (HiGA) for the 2025 academic year.
3. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
--------------------------------------------------------
1. Management Training in Japan (Subsidized program).
--------------------------------------------------------
Applications for the following 2 courses are now open! Don't miss out on this great opportunity!.
(1)The Training Program on Program & Project Management [PPTP].
Through lectures, organization visits, and exercises, participants will acquire systems and methods of Program & Project Management from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
Duration: From 28 October to 8 November 2024.
Place: AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
How to apply: Applications will be accepted via AOTS Alumni Societies. See the Program Outline for details.
(2)The Program on Production Improvement utilizing Digital Technology [PIDT].
Improve your ability to identify issues that drive productivity by understanding Japanese manufacturers' practices and learning how to effectively implement IoT and digital technologies.
Duration: From 19 November to 2 December 2024.
Place: AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan).
How to apply: Applications will be accepted via AOTS Alumni Societies. See the Program Outline for details.
Please visit AOTS website for more info.
https://www.aots.jp/en/what-we-do/hrd/management/subsidized/list-of-courses/
FAQ for Management Programs.
https://www.aots.jp/en/what-we-do/hrd/management/subsidized/list-of-courses/faq/
Inquiry: AOTS Overseas Cooperation Group I
E-mail: shouhei-au@aots.jp
Tel: +81-(0)3-3888-8256
--------------------------------------------------------
2. Admissions for Hiroshima Global Academy (HiGA) for the 2025 academic year.
--------------------------------------------------------
Hiroshima Global Academy (HiGA) is located on an island in Hiroshima, Japan.
We are an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School that offers the Diploma Program (DP) from Grades 10 through to 12.
Additionally, our school offers a full board dormitory system.
We are going to open Admissions for the 2025 academic year soon.
The application registration will start on the 1st of August, JST.
Click here for more detail on the Admission.
https://higa-s.jp/en/senior-high/index/application-process/
Click here for Instruction for the application for the admission for the 2025 academic year.
https://youtu.be/ClxQCeVCG60
Click here for PR video of HiGA.
https://youtu.be/X-l4GTyXj1E
[Inquiry]
higa2022@higanet.higa.ed.jp
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. Insight: Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thoughts on the Management Philosophy of Various Japanese Companies - July 2024
Did you know that the favorite book of Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani is The Analects and the Abacus by Eiichi Shibusawa, which explains how to balance business and morality?
In 1840, the year that Eiichi was born, there were still samurai in Japan.
During that era, there was a strict class system based on the feudal hierarchy.
Farmers, merchants, and artisans were viewed as low-class commoners, even though their existence generated wealth for society.
In contrast, the warrior class were in charge of the government, with the Tokugawa shogunate at the top.
They had control over fiefs and their residents, consuming the wealth that the common people produced.
Eiichi was born into an affluent farmer's family, although he belonged to the low-class peasantry.
Having inherited his mother's kind heart and the character of his father, a man with a love of learning that included specialized agriculture as well as accounting, Eiichi grew up to be a fine young man.
However, he would soon have an important experience that caused him to have profound doubts about the social system.
One day when he was 17 years old, the Shibusawa household suddenly received a summons from the magistrate of the domain which ruled the area.
Eiichi went to the magistrate's mansion in place of his father, who was ill in bed.
Without warning, the magistrate ordered him to pay 500 ryo to help pay for the wedding of the daimyo's daughter.
500 ryo is an amount worth more than 50 million yen today.
In response to this outrageous demand, the pure-hearted Eiichi angrily thought to himself, "Don't we work hard and pay our annual tribute as we should?
Now, on top of that, they're suddenly ordering us to contribute a huge sum against our will, with no explanation? What is this?"
Restraining his anger, he finally answered, "I am here on behalf of my father, so I will consult him and then give you our reply."
Upon hearing this, the magistrate was furious: "Why do you not agree right away? If the likes of you are commanded to pay, you should say nothing and hand over the money."
At that time, daimyo and magistrates, as members of the warrior class, were permitted to execute residents of a fief with their swords, but thanks in part to hasty intercession by others in attendance, Eiichi managed to leave the mansion safely.
Ultimately, his father settled the matter by paying the 500 ryo.
However, the experience deeply impressed on Eiichi's mind the need to transform a society where outrageous behavior was widespread-such as government officials who do not work at all arrogantly throwing their weight around as magistrates in order to take money that commoners earned by means of hard work.
In the next column, I will talk more about Eiichi's subsequent activities.
To be continued in the next edition.
Stay tuned for the next AOTS E-Newsletter.
Rikio Suma, Author
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Others
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<Past Issues>
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Copyright 2016 The Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships, 30-1, Senju-Azuma 1-chome, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 120-8534, JAPAN