Word: yoshikawa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the electronics firm Omron told plant manager Junichi Yoshikawa, 43, that he had to take a three-month sabbatical, he set up a vacation schedule with the same thoroughness that he shows at the office. He decided to travel overseas (to San Francisco and Los Angeles), practice golf and start his own consulting and sales firm in Japan -- and tackled each task with determination. "After two months off, I felt different," Yoshikawa recalls. "I felt that I could be more creative and break away from reality...