Word: ryutaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese worker, his company is not an oppressor but rather the source of his income and the expression of his place in society. Says Ryutaro Nohmura, 57, who owns a tentmaking firm in Osaka: "Employees in Japan view their company as an extension of their family life. Indeed many of them equate the importance of their company with that of their own life...
...rule. Top executives are expected to spend up to three or four nights a week entertaining-eating in posh restaurants or golfing on lush greens. When a Japanese company launches a new product, its executives entertain prospective buyers to help them reach a consensus fast. Says Ryutaro Nohmura, a leading tentmaker: "Kosai-hi is nothing less than the lubricant for our enormous business machine, the very source of our economic vitality...