Love Sony

35 five years have passed since Sony launched the first walkman. People in their 50's love Sony, because Sony products have changed our lifestyle. We understand that products of Panasonic have been more reliable those that of Sony, but we love Sony. A lot of people have been shocked by the selling of Vaio brand. Vaio brand was a symbol of the company as well as Walkman brand. We want the company to maintain Walkman brand, whatever happened.   

Dry Beer

Before the 70's the top season of beer gardens was mid summer, because it was not as hot as it is in Tokyo and the price of  air-conditioners was too high for ordinary family. Most of the department stores ran beer gardens on their roof top and a lot of business people enjoyed beer after work. A major brand 'Asahi Super Dry'  was born in the mid 80's. At that time Asah faced tough time, because they had no popular brand and Kirin dominated the Japanese beer market. As it has been getting hotter since the 80's  due to climate change, Japanese consumers wanted to drink more dry taste beer than it was in humid summer  Asahi succeeded in meeting this change.   

A Share Holder Meeting

On June 27th, more than 900 listed companies held their share holder meetings. Why do they hold the meeting on the same day? They want to protect themselves from a 'soukaiya', which is a share holder related to gangstars. A 'soukaiya'  is searching for scandals about famous companies and intimidates the companies by threatening to leak the scandals at the share holder meetings. If the companies want to keep a secret, the companies have to give in to extortion In order to weaken the power of  'soukaiya',　the day of share holder meetings are concentrated on the same day

Have seasonal fish around Japan.

The rainy season has continued, but small fish in  Tokyo bay and  Sagami bay will be delicious from now on. Due to heavy rain, a lot of water from rivers flows into the bays and  a lot of plankton are raised at the meeting point of  sea water and river water. In this atmosphere, small fish becomes very delicious, so you should not eat expensive tuna in this season.  Have seasonal fish around Japan. 

The Ishin party will be dissolved

The Ishin party led by Hashimoto and Ishihara announced that the party will be dissolved in a few months. Both leaders are very famous as right wingers, but they can not bridge the gap between their political tactics. The difference of the tactics has been clear since they started to talk about an integration with the Yui party. Ishihara believes that the party has no intention of amending the Japanese constitution, so Ishin should not integrate with Yui. and replace the Komei party withir as a allegiance party of the LDP.  As for Hashimoto, he thinks that the priority issue for Ishin is becoming the second major party beyond the DPJ. so Ishin should integrate with Yui

 

Toppling the dinner table, 'Chabudai'

In Japan toppling the dinner table, 'chabudai', means that  bosses reverse past decisions angrily. In a past era ordinary families used to have simple dinner at small dinner table 'chabudai' together and  fathers had strong power in their families.   Do you know a famous animation, Kyoojin-no-Hoshi ', about a new star of the Yomiuri Giants ? In this story a hero Hyuma  is trained hard by his father and becomes a superstar of Yomiuri. Every night the stubborn  father gets angry at Hyuma  and topple the dinner table. This scene represents the atmosphere of the 60's Japanese society symbolically, so men in their 40s and 50s understand the meaning of 'topple the dinner table' easily.

Why do big commercial facilities in the center of Tokyo have beautiful Japanese gardens?

Why do big commercial facilities in the center of Tokyo have beautiful Japanese gardens?  Even skyscrapers, for example Roppongi hills, have a beautiful Japanese garden. In the Edo period, lords called 'daimyo' had to live in Edo every other year, although they had territories in rural areas. Therefore the shogunate had given land in Edo to lords for  their manor houses. There were more than 200 beautiful manor houses in Edo. These manor houses had been deprived by the Meiji government and the government had given them to new noble society members. However the members were striped of their privileges by GHQ after World War 2, and after that new rich companies have bought up the manor houses with beautiful gardens.