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hakuman
RickyV - you are attributing western behaviors, morals, and motivations to a Japanese company. That's not how things work in companies here. Whether or not the members hate him or not is irrelevant. Hate or dislike, anger, these are their honne - their inner self. But what their actions will reflect their is their tatemae - their outward appearance. And for appearances sake, they have to be repentant, and strive on. This is a group society. The primary importance is group harmony so as to ensure the survival of the group. It's what they do on an instinctive level.
Woodford has won this battle. Maybe not the war, the Japanese work more long-term than westerners and therefore his opponents may wait a lengthy period of time before making their next strike. But for the time being, Woodford has the upper hand.
Posted in: Olympus urged to rehire ousted British CEO
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hakuman
Goals - yes, that is what I meant.
Posted in: Olympus urged to rehire ousted British CEO
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hakuman
The only thing that will decide whether Mr. Woodford would not be CEO within a few weeks is if Mr. Woodford decides he doesn't want to be CEO. We are talking a Japanese company here. Anyone who has ever spent an extended length working in Japanese companies knows that business here is a battle in the background. This wasn't a case of whistle-blowing in the Western sense, this was a straight-up battle between a CEO and the board. The CEO doesn't whistle-blow, that's a term reserved for those who are under pressure from their bosses to keep quiet. He was the boss, and he was choosing his direction for the company.
The board didn't like it, and they had to make a move. Maybe they made a stupid one by throwing him out, or maybe it was the only move that they had left open to them. Whichever it was, they played their hand, and they lost. Simple as that. Woodford played a better game, and the final nail in the coffin has been hammered in by Mr. Miyata, in creating the site about which this article is based.
For Japanese companies (and Japan, and the Japanese), the outside appearance is everything. They will fight bitterly behind closed doors,and put on a good external front. Suits, politeness, bowing. But now, the secret things they were doing behind closed doors have been shown to the outside. They have been caught outright for doing bad stuff, and being Japanese, the only option left to them now is to give the appearance of remorse, and show intent to repent. Mr. Miyata, 70-year-old former senior managing director has expressed that he thinks Woodford should be reinstated. Remember, for the Japanese, age and title hold a degree of respect, and this man has both. His reasons for wanting Woodford reinstated are, for the company he loves. So now the board members are in the position that if they don't hire back Woodford, it is essentially saying they DON'T love their company, for the respected Mr. Miyata has quite clearly stated what love for the company requires.
If Mr. Woodford deigns to resume his former position, he has all the power. All of it. He was fired, and a few short (or long) weeks later, he is back. He won the battle. They can't fire him - he already showed him that. And beyond that, they need to show that they want to repent. Remember what the Japanese did after that little scuffle called World War II? They let the Americans in, they listened to what they said, kept their heads down, and worked their asses off. This is what the Japanese do. I remember reading back about the Meiji milk scandal happened in the early 2000s. The sales people, knowing that their hated company wouldn't exist in a few weeks, were still going out, going home-to-home to the people who had been affected, listening to their stories and making apologies. When asked 'why?', they said that it was what had to be done.
The staff of Olympus will listen to Woodford. Not even because they have to (which they do), but because it's what they do. They know the battle is over, now all that is left is survival and cleanup. He won't be the as$hole for 'whistleblowing', he is going to be the hero for exposing the corruption in the company.
Posted in: Olympus urged to rehire ousted British CEO
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hakuman
The ironic thing is that marijuana isn't addictive.
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hakuman
This thread is a perfect example of how so many posters on this site jump to conclusions about how parents and staff are irresponsible, when they really have no clue. I would have let my kid play on that unattended, and in fact, I let my boy play on something very similar when he was 2 years old. I wouldn't call ANY parent negligent for letting their kid play on that - it looks pretty darn safe.
Yet, there were at least a few posters, as on every thread like this, who condemn the parents as being horrible and sometimes deserving of jail, when they really have no clue of the actual details of a situation.
You people should learn a lesson from this.
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hakuman
So many hypocritcal posters on this site. When a Japanese person does something bad, people go on about how bad Japan and the Japanese are. When a foreigner does something wrong, it's only one foreigner. And the Japanese are so bad.
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hakuman
Unfortunately, it is this kind of company culture that has led to the stagnation of Japan's economy. The people at the bottom know that nothing they do will really benefit them, and that the people at the top will do whatever they want (both in business and society). So they will meet the minimum standard that being Japanese requires them to, but not go that extra mile. Essentially this means, they have no hope. And when you have a country full of people with no hope, everything starts to break down.
Of course, this isn't just in Japan, obviously the Occupy-everywhere protests show that. But, this article is about Japan specifically.
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hakuman
*some
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hakuman
Carbon credits are the biggest scam. If you dont think so, I've got so,e carbon credits you can buy.
Posted in: Hippie no more: Suit, PhD, mark today's activist
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hakuman
I think you got democrats and republicans mixed up, because you just described the republicans to a T.
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hakuman
If we're going to talk statistics of Military vs. Okinawan crime rates, then here is a stistic: 100% of crime by military in Okinawa is done by the military, with 0% being done by okinawans. That is to say, if the Americans weren't there, they wouldn't be committing the crimes. As such a comparison of rates is pointless. The Okinawans are in their home, their land. The Americans are (often unwelcome) 'guests'.
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hakuman
That should read 'a cultural aversion', not 'a wrong cultural aversion'
Posted in: Newborn baby found in convenience store toilet trash can
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hakuman
Unfortunately, Japanese people have a wrong cultural aversion to adopting. I've tried to convince my wife that if we want another child, we should adopt, as we already have one biological child, and many adopted children need homes. But it goes against what she has been taught, and the idea makes her uncomfortable.
This aversion to adoption is probably one of the things that mothers such as the one in this story are think g of when they decide to leave their babies for dead or whatnot.
Posted in: Newborn baby found in convenience store toilet trash can
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hakuman
I don't know why you people think playing in the street is a Japanese thing - we did it as kids in my country as well. Street hockey was how I spent countless hours of my childhood. Add this to the fact that there aren't a lot of places for kids to play that aren't the street in Japan.
I don't know what it is abou so many foreigners here that they come and then blame the same things that happen in their own society on the Japanese. Talk about walking around with cultural blinders on.
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hakuman
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hakuman
Definitely looks to be copying Apple's Magic Mouse.
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hakuman
I should proofread before posting.
In this case, the official would have checked the metadata of the file to see if it all matched up properly - location, computer, user, any other identifiers they may have. It's actually a proper way of validating a file.
Posted in: NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed
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hakuman
All electronic files have extra data called metadata attached to them. Metadata contains information about the file that may or may not (and usually isn't) used when that file is viewed.
For example, look at the HTML source of this page. Right click on the page, and look for something like 'source' or 'view source'. This will show you the HTML that this page is built on. Everything between the opening <head> tag and the closing </head> tag is meta data. It is information about this document, but nothing in their will be seen in the page when you are viewing it.
Photos will have location metadata attached, as well as size, resolution, and timestamp of the image. Word documents will have the author and computer name. And so on.
Transporting information can be done in much the same way. Data is added to a file, usually an innocuous one. If anybody opens the file, they see the contents of the file, not the data that has been embedded the actual data structure of the file itself.
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hakuman
The thread title is wrong. When I read it, my initial thought was 'what the hell?' a flight is long, and letting the copilot sit in the seat for a picture is fine. But the pilot didn't get disciplined for letting the co-pilot sit in the seat, he got disciplined for allowing a situation in which no one was looking at the gauges. It's this type of reporting that gives the media a bad name. It's either sensationalistic, or it's sloppy. Neither one is good.
Posted in: JAL pilot disciplined for letting female co-pilot sit in his seat for photo
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hakuman
I on the other hand love my iPhone. One of the best things I ever bought. It's my music, books, tv and news, all in one. Plus more!
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