Home Town

Today is the last day of 2008 and I spend that time at my home town.

In 2002, I left my home town to go to university. And I had to manage my life by myself. Cooking, Washing, Time Mnage... everything was my first experience. Such things is my base. 2002 was my new start-line of my life.

In 2006, I started my business life at Tokyo. I was born in Aichi prefecture and my university was located at Shiga prefecture. Nagoya in Aichi is 3rd big city in Japan but my home town is far from there. And Shiga is more rural area. So that was my first urban life. Huge building, lots of people, luxurious restaurant... everything fascinated me. 2 years after, I was transferred to Osaka, which is also big city.

People stimulated my mind. Shiga, Tokyo and Osaka are one of the factor of my mind but the best is person with whom I related at each region. Several kinds of person such as University Friend, Music Friend, Professor, Company Colleague and Business Partner told me about different world. Each opinion was different from mine and I enjoyed fresh discussion with them. Such diversity provided me new vision, which would be my basic mind. At first time, accepting new consideration is pain for me. But it is very important and precious experience. After overcoming the pain, I could grab new vision.

Home town is reliable place for me. Something has changed but the basic point has NOT. There are familiar place and people. I've got many information and experience and friends, which spread my world. And I really appreciate such situation but I also forget important things.

Heart.

Humanity makes our life comfortable. But everything, especially business task, must be implemented by logic on strategy. We must control their balance. I often forgot such simple importance. Then home town phenomenon takes me back from logistic darkness.

Flexible circumstance spread my base.

No-Change existence sustains my heart.

Japanese Shosha

What is Shosha? 

I belong to Japanese Shosha, which has several function of business. Existence of such kinds of company is Japanese feature. That treats various goods made by another firm. So it always thought as broker. On the other hand, they also do investments to create new market or to foster young competitive company such like venture capital. In addition, real estate is also one of their business resource. This flexibility is the most characteristic weapon on their commerce. 

But lots of Shosha was bankrupted these days. At first, their major task was trading between foreign countries. It is decreasing together with developing IT. Second, their business model has changed to be like finance company. Almost profitable department treats financial items like M&A, PE, REIT and so on. That contains huge earning possibility and fearful future. Investment failure carries debt much bigger than trading business. They can get great amount of profit and can also be eliminated in a split second. 

I think Shosha was necessary for Japanese industrial history. Needless to say, Japan is technological country. Only original idea came from foreign firms but Japanese brushed up them to be the top. Their spirits of manufacturing and concentration is the strongest character. And Shosha is one of the most important tool for their mission. Such companies have many kinds of items for production. Shosha helped Japanese technical advance. 

Now Shosha must think about real value of existence. What is Shosha's work? Investment? Finance? I don't think like that. It is very interesting and important to use it for new business. But it is not core of Shosha business. Only one of the strongest option. 

Core is existence as flexible tool, I think. 

They can't create objects but they can help a lot of manufacturing. It may be impossible to get advantage from IT machine in an information field. Internet is useful for getting information of machine, market and so on. But it can't help human. Only human can do it. 

Shosha's value doesn't only depend on information, finance and international community but is ability based on human knowledge and experience to create brilliant solution.

MBA

I decided to challenge the MBA(Master of Business Administration) program.

I've thought about my life-plan since 6 years ago. At that time I took part in the TYOC(Toyota Youth Orchestra Camp) and was in charge of section chief of management committee. That is first organization I belonged to. And finally I spent my 4 years for that. All of them was so effective for me that my mind was changed. Making budget plan was one of them. This task required to communicate with several kinds of people such as secretariats, sponsor, professional musician and so on. Each of them had fascinating skill and experience. I was of course absorbed and noticed the difficulty of managing such essence. Money plan related to almost all of the program. So I had to understand it and to make connection with each important people. Making the budget is not only accounting experience but also core of precious community and negotiation experience. That may be tiny thing in my life but is also my turning point. Since then I always think about my future.

What is marvelous for me?

What will happen in my future?

What I have to do?

What I can do?

What is my role in the future?

All of them is my theme and also my pleasure.

MBA program is not only academic program. That also provides students with diversified community, which extend the variety of discussion. Such thing is base of business as everyone mentioned. And it is precious time in order to look back at their past time. That period is very important but is usually thought as the useless time. In the modern society, the practical things is everything. But all of them was created by a human. Therefore in my opinion what we must seek is not concrete result but procedure. It consist of only human spirits. And it can be fostered by only our own experience. I think such things can be obtained through a MBA program.

I must explore myself for my internal comfort and MBA is one of the way. This theme is simple but deep. So that will be discussed for the time being...

ブログをはじめました

自分の個人的な記録用としてブログをはじめた。

自分の志向の変化を記録できればと思う。

ま、ただの日記だけど。

時々、時間をみつけて、思ったこと、起こった事を記録してくだけ。

たぶん、自分以外の人が見ても、きっとただの日記で、感動的でもなければ、面白くもない。

ただ、自分が見たときに、その時、その瞬間の気持ちだとか、情景が少しでも思い出せればと思って、記そうと思う。

なんで、こんな面倒な事をはじめてしまったのか、自分でもよく分からないけど…。

恐らく、自分用と言いながらも、誰かに知って欲しいと、心のどこかで思ってるからだと思う。

ま、いつまで経っても子供です。

最近の「見たり、聞いたり、出来るようになった事」を、自慢して、スゴイって言ってもらいたいんだと思う。

しかし、心のどこかでは、そんな恥ずかしいマネは出来ない、まだまだ先があるのだから、全然自分はスゴイなんて域まで達していないなどなど、変な理由が邪魔をして、本能を100%放出出来ないでいる。

さらに言えば、文書に出来るほど考えがまとまっていないものもある。

こんな事ばかり最初から書くと、今後のブログが、どれほど読みにくいものになるのか、ちょっと嫌な予感もする。

だけど、せっかく記録する場所が出来たんだから、ちゃんと書いていこうと思う。

単なる、日記を。