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Word: kentaro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example. Like all car manufacturers, Toyota finds it increasingly difficult to hire young men to fill achingly monotonous jobs on the assembly line, which rolls off 60 cars an hour. "The work is simple and boring, and it is hard to get a sense of accomplishment from it," says Kentaro Sasaki, a 25-year-old personnel officer, who spent six months on the line. But whatever their feelings, the plant's workers apply themselves diligently. "They try to increase their output to show that they can do the job well," Foreman Schoichi Tsuchida told TIME Correspondent Edwin Reingold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japanese Labor's Silken Tranquillity | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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