Word: toyoda
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...unrest as the number of jobless escalates. But part of the motivation is a very Asian perception of corporate responsibility. "For each (employee), I believe, the workplace exists not only for earning a living, but also for making friends, growing up and making a contribution to the society," Akio Toyoda said after being named the new president of Toyota Motor in late January. "I'm aware that stabilizing and maintaining employment is an extremely important task of a company." (See pictures of the global financial crisis here...
...revolutionized the way factories are run worldwide. Few people have done more to perfect "the Toyota Way" than chairman Hiroshi Okuda, 71, and president Fujio Cho, 67, with a combined 93 years at Toyota between them. Toyota's first two CEOs not to hail from the company's founding Toyoda clan, Okuda and Cho have taught hundreds of companies the TPS secrets of eliminating waste, reducing defects and maximizing flow. "From the very beginning, Toyota learned much from other carmakers," says Cho. "Sharing what we have discovered since then is one way we can give something back...
...addition to bringing in foreigners to raise the intensity level, Japan has tried other team-building tactics, including employing a psychologist, Kazushige Toyoda, for the youth team. Toyoda specializes in the practice of qi, which supposedly unleashes the body's inner powers. Among those he trained was the national team's striker, the bleach blond, baby-faced Junichi Inamoto?the talk of Japan last week after he scored the winning goal in Japan's 1-0 victory over Russia and contributed another in a 2-2 draw with Belgium. In early qi sessions, Inamoto "was a little shy, a little...
...Toyoda Toshiaki's Blue Spring also takes on adolescence through an all-boys school. Though dressed up as celluloid eye candy, the film is seethingly bitter at its core. The setting is a young-yakuza breeding ground where everybody wants to join someone else's gang or start his own. Boys kill each other at school. Authority is a distant rumor. The boys' only respite comes through playing a heart-stopping variant on the game of chicken: they stand at ledges 30 meters above the concrete and see how many times they can clap their hands before grabbing...