TITAS 2

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TITAS 2
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JAPAN CIVILIZATION
Japanese appear to be an unique people advance in
technology. How we apply the quality found in
Japanese culture to our society?
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INTRODUCTION TO JAPAN
INTRODUCTION TO JAPAN

• Family is a great importance, often find several
  generations living in one roof.
• Respect and honor elders, follow family rules.
• Absorbed many ideas from other countries.

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ORIGINS OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE

• Descended from Polynesia, from South Asia or
  Ancient Israel.
• Descended from Yayoi and Jomon people where
• Jomon culture (c. 5000 B.C. - c. 250 B. C.)
• Yayoi culture (c. 250 B. C. - c. AD 250)
• Pottery (ceramics) was first developed by the
  Jomon.
• The Jomon are Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
• The Yayoi were a bronze-age people.
• Metalworking
• Rice cultivation
• Yayoi language developed into Modern Japanese
  language.
• Shinto religion developed from Yayoi beliefs.

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THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND WRITING SYSTEM
THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND WRITING SYSTEM

• Confusing politeness levels.
• Insane grammatical structure.
• Divide into 3 different written languages.
• Hiragana (those squiggly letter)
• used to spell out Japanese words using syllables.
• Consists of many different and complicated
  letters.
• Katakana (those boxy letters)
• Spell out foreign words in a thick, crippling
  Japanese accent.
• Make reading Japanese much easier.
• Letters stolen from China.
• Kanji (roughly 4 million embodiments)
• Each consists of several strokes, which must be
  written in specific order and convey a specific
  meaning.

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JAPANESE WRITING TYPES
Katakana
Hiragana
Kanji
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THE UNIQUE OF JAPANESE
THE UNIQUE OF JAPANESE

• In general life
• Respect their honorable traditions with a great
  pride.
• Slip off shoes at the door when back from work.
• Comfort wearing their traditional kimonos.
• In personal life
• Group oriented.
• Harmony community, accommodate others opinions.
• Attach more importance to law regulations than
  own judgement.

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KIMONOS
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• On business
• accommodate others opinions
• Structured.
• Japanese manufacturers cut their production costs
  by using sub-contractor grouping system and all
  the companies also from the nationwide group,
  called Goso Sendan Houshiki (Armed Convoy
  System).
• Education
• Teacher lecturing from a platform and student
  taking notes.
• Students are evaluated solely by exam results
• The purpose and the education system is to make
  the students adapt well in organizational
  structure.

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• Dressing
• Dress extremely well.
• Everything has to be in its correct place.
• Sloppiness is not tolerated.
• Politeness levels
• Have their root in an ancient Japanese tradition
  of absolute obedience and conformity, a social
  caste system and complete respect for arbitrary
  hierarchical authority.
• Depends on many things such as age of the
  speaker,time of a day, zodiac sign and so on.

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JAPANS TECHNOLOGY

• Focus on development in electronics and
  manufacturing technologies
• Leaders in the development,support and mgnmt of
  complex,low-cost packaging and assembly
  technologies
• Technology and manufacturing is an integral part
  of its of microelectronics industriess
  success.

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THE JAPANESE RD TECHNOLOGY

• Patent System
• To educate as opposed to protect an invention in
  U.S. system
• Patent applications are made public and open to
  rebuttal by competitors
• Purpose to cross-license its core technology
• Technical Trained Managers
• 75 of the CEOs of manufacturing firms have
  engineering Degrees
• Automation Technology
• Concentrate on developing in-house process and
  equipment technologies

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• RD Technologies
• Japanese firms invest two-thirds for their RD
  and one-third for product development
• Depends on Customer Needs
• Used drive advanced technology development
  activities
• Utilize proven technologies that has been tested
• Long Term Commitments
• Japanese firms make long-term commitments on the
  development of new products,components and
  technologies

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• Teams With Common Vision
• Dedicated and skilled team approach is standard
  operating procedure in Japan
• Japanese team members understand the entire
  systems views of the product vision
• Japans industrial system comes from small
  family approach
• Relationships with Universities
• Japanese companies conduct their own basic
  research/license it from outside
• Japanese firms were spending more in U.S
  universities than in Japanese universities

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• Local government supports
• Approximately 160 municipal industrial research
  institutes (MIRIs) have been establised
• The facilities are impressive,with well-equipped
  research laboraties and libraries
• Parallel Development Programs
• Japanese firms pursue two to five technologies
  simultaneously due to introduce next-generation
  products in a timely manner
• Research centres are heavily involved in the
  development of next generation products

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• Have a Clear Vision And Philosophy
• Set lofty goals for their companies
• The management is commited to improving Total
  quality and customer satisfaction continuously
• Introducing innovative products in integrated and
  interrelated technologies
• By reconizing market needs, and moves through
  developing aproduct vision and specifying quality
  and cost targets to designing the product and
  factory automation system and equipment
• Concentrate on quality of products

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HOW WE CAN APPLY THE QUALITY FOUND IN JAPANESE
CULTURE TO OUR SOCIETY

• No more Asia for Asian this time Thunder in
  The East
• Did post mortem on the failure of their military
  strategy and look forward to build a wonder
  nation and unique people.
• High discipline and patriotisms
• Practice inherited frm the ancestors, shogun and
  samurai.
• They do everything w/out questions
• Obedience or loyalty to rules is an honor
• Respect culture being develops from infants

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• Formal education should be initiated frm young
  age.
• Literature and history are compulsory to all
  student
• Great nation is a nation that owns their history
  study from the past
• Literature is the nation development agent
• Very confidence with their efficiency
  accountability
• Stand on their own feet
• Adopt the ideas from west, study it, reconstruct
  it reproduce it in different dimension

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