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After running into the former Chairman of Toyota, Mr. Cho, moments earlier at the Nagoya train station, I arrived at the first stop of the day –
It has been surprising to me since moving to Japan six months ago to learn that very few hospitals and health systems are using Lean
I’ve been spending a lot of time traveling on the Shinkansen and other trains for gemba visits to Japanese organizations and with my family on
Before I visited the Toyota Kyushu plant to talk with the Toyota TPS Promotion Office manager, I posted on social media to see if anyone had questions
Following our tour of the Toyota Kyushu plant, which I wrote about in an earlier post, my Japanese colleague was able to set up a
Today I decided to get out of the hustle and bustle of the city, and I went on an excursion to a small rice farming
The third site that I visited on my tour with Makoto in April demonstrated a deep practice of kaizen (continuous improvement) and a philosophy of waste elimination
I love living in Japan, but when it comes to cigarette smoking, I feel like I’m in a time warp. I hate that people can
My first impressions about the gender divide in Japan continue to be validated as I have lived here for several more months. Despite having one
First Lady Akie Abe’s thoughts about the role of women I’ve written before about the gender gap in Japanese culture. Last month I had the
One of the stops on my gemba visits to four Japanese manufacturing organizations in April was an organization called Rentic Chubu. Rentic has excelled in
Two weeks ago I joined a Japan Lean study trip tour led by Makoto Investments and had the opportunity to visit three different Japanese manufacturing organizations.
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