My impression about Japan

When i was still studying in unversity i have a lot of chances to visit a lot of factories and companies to learn about management and production control system. I was lucky to have a good professor to give me chance to take part in problem solving.

I was really impressed with Japanese System in educating thier workers, their spirit in work,
how they make everything important even smallest part in the work is important in maintaining top quality.

Everybody knows about Japanese High Technologies. When I was in High School I watched a TV programme called Beyond 2000. It shows about bullet train and robot in Japan. I was so amazed with their technologies.Then I already decided that I want to study engineering in Japan. After staying for almost 12 years, now i can understand why they could achieve such a high speed economic developement after world war 2. Japan itself dont have nature resource for industrial like petroleum, steel, etc..(ofcourse they have some rear metal...) Therefore, they understand what they should have to keep them living by polishing the production technologies.

Japan have 3000 years of history that makes their society system really well-organized. The changes of climate (4 seasons) make them really susceptible to the time and enviroment changes.I was really suprised to see how Japanese being so sensitive with time. For example the Sinkansen (bullet train) schedule very complicated but always in time and never even late
even a minute. Even in private they will be really punctual, they will feel uncomfotable if we are late for a minute.They also very sensitive about spaces, Japan population is up to 1.2 billion, very limited space, therefore the roads and houses are designed with a limited and compact spaces. I respect their knowledge and techniques on how they use the limited space to create maximum comfort and appearance.

From my experience these culture make them really displine and always requesting changes for the life, that makes them motivated to challenge in improving the techniques and innovate the technologies.

Where there are lights, there will be shadows too. Japanese really hard working people, including me now, they will work late.The working system itself makes the employees stay late. To compare with my own country, they spend a lot time on work that makes them under a lot stress and pressure. Working enviroment here itself is very high compatative environment.

Japan's grim reputation as one of the world's suicide nations has been confirmed by statistics that show more than 30,000 people a year have taken their own lives since figures first began to rise in 1998.There a lot reasons for suicide but i personally think high compatitive society and unbalanced work environment are big factors for these phenomenon. Recently there is movement about [work life balance] , i think it is still a long way to solve this problem.