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Not orient trading
I have a company I work for in Tokyo.

There, I had a department change.

There are several departments within the division, and I have been in my current department for about 6 years and my previous department for 1 year, for a total of about 7 years
I was in the division where I am now.
Division itself was a very comfortable department for me, but my department was still exceptional and
It felt like home.
I have been involved in new business since the founding of the department, so it is even more so.

I received a bouquet of flowers from everyone at Home.
It seems that they made the bouquet according to my impression,
I felt it was a delightful experience to have flowers visually represent me.

The lace on the wrapping paper is also cute.
I went back to my parents’ house in Kobe during the spring holidays, so I decorated my parents’ house with flowers that I received at the farewell ceremony.

It’s also nice to put it in a vase to give it a different feel.

I like this color very much.
Both salmon pink gerberas and colorful carnations are rare.

 

I thought the cat was looking at the flowers.
I was surprised when I saw the photo.

There are stink bugs on the wall!

Oh well, they are fresh flowers, so they attract insects.
Is the cat enchanted by the flowers?

Or is it trying to get the bugs?
Which one do you see?

 

Mai  Kadowaki

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There is a story that made me laugh when I was watching TV before.
It was Robert Akiyama’s song “Specialty Flowers Blooming on the Toilet Tank”.
First of all, I laughed at the word “specialty,” and then I laughed,
The song, “Never withers, never grows,” is a very touching one (as an artificial flower shop owner would say) 😆.
I wonder how foreigners would perceive this nuance of self-deprecatingly conveying what is neither possible nor impossible.
I would be happy if someone would be interested from these videos and become interested in what I have to say about life in Japan.
I like America so much that people often ask me, “What are the good and bad things about America?”I am asked, “What I don’t like is ‘a dirty toilet.
I don’t think it’s that dirty in an average home bathroom….
In fact, the bathrooms in my host family’s house in Los Angeles were clean.
However, there were no professional flowers blooming in the toilets.LOL.
Many Japanese people think that way.
I wonder if placing flowers in the bathrooms would encourage people to use them cleanly.
Recently in Japan, the number of specialized flowers to put in toilets has been decreasing.
I hope that the culture of placing artificial flowers in restrooms will spread to other countries as well, so that people can spend more pleasant time in restrooms.
I thought so.

REFERENCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSy5oM_eJL8

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I have been watching a lot of sports recently and actually doing some physical activity myself.

For example, last week, I went to watch a J-League game at the National Stadium after work with my colleagues from the same department on Wednesday,
On Friday, I played squash for the first time in my life after work with my colleagues.(I regretted telling everyone that I used to be in the tennis club 😥 lol)
So, I thought…
Recently, Sapporo Beer Co., Ltd. of Ebisu Beer has been working on emotional value by creating a community of people who like Ebisu Beer (Ebisu Beer Town),
Sports are good for creating a connection of emotional value without trying to foster it.
I was especially overwhelmed by the cheering of the soccer supporters this time.That’s how I felt.

Usually I am more of a baseball watcher, so I have never seen soccer supporters up close, but sometimes when I go to a different sporting event like this, I can see things from a new angle and think about things, so I wanted to go back.

By the way, in figure skating, we see on TV how they throw a bouquet of flowers on the rink after the athletes finish their performance, isn’t it good if those are artificial flowers and the petals don’t fly away? I was also impressed by the way the people in the area were so friendly and welcoming 🙄.
If you go to a 100-yen store (seria), you can find cute wrapping paper.
I recommend just wrapping a bouquet of artificial flowers with it to add originality.

I would like to watch figure skating someday.

 

Mai Kadowaki

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Recently, Mr. Hirotake Yano, founder of Daiso, passed away.

Mr. Yano said that the birth of the “100 yen Uniform” business model was a complete coincidence, and when you read the episode, that is exactly what happened.It is more than a coincidence,

The proverb “All is well that ends well” is very apt.
Please read the episode on Wikipedia.

Even seemingly bad events have turned out to be the kicker that leads to good results.
And Mr. Yano has the power to make it so.I feel this way after seeing Mr. Yano’s life.

The fact that we were able to catch the coincidence without passing it by, notice it, and give shape to it is because of our daily PDCA（Plan Do Cheak Action）　

If I hadn’t really thought about it, I would have just said, “I had one of those days.
I feel like it was all over.
I see how he manages his inventory by thinking this way and that way, making mistake after mistake, and learning from his experiences rather than from logic.
At Daiso’s sales floor, there is also an artificial flower corner,
There is an artificial flower corner.
I think the brightly colored artificial flowers embody what Mr. Yano had in mind: “Business = never getting bored.

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Mr Yano had in mind
Business=Never get bored.
In Japanese language
Business is written
(商い)and pronounced
Akinai. Never get bored is (飽きない)and
also pronounced Akinai in the
same sound.
By using these
2 words together at
the end of the sentence people can easily learn
his business philosophy
That will surely make the sentence more stylish and attractive.

 

Mai Kadowaki

 

 

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