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>>18511710
Likely the result of Japanese work culture if we're being honest that demands salarymen work in different cities which necessitates more train autism before they finally decide to jump in front of one

Constant improvement has always been one of their ways.

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>>18511710
Geography is destiny
Japan is a narrow strip of mountanious terrain that made it difficult for empires to conquer the island, its position off the coast of asia put it in a similar role to the UK in European trade

>>18511710
This is one of those terms onto which the Anglosphere has attached more meaning than actually exists natively. The wikipedia article for kaizen in Japanese is actually extremely small. The idea of this as a philosophy or as a culture seems like an invention by non-Japanese to describe something they see in Japan.

But what do they see? Small improvements to increase efficiency? Every business does that.
One of the examples cited for kaizen is JIT manufacturing but this has its precursors in early 20th century American industry. So I'm not sure the definition of kaizen is actually well founded.

>>18511773
i should have clarified - i'm not talking about kaizen in the business sense, i'm talking about it in every day life in general

>>18511773
>Every business does that
lol, confirmed for never having worked a day in your life

>>18511710
>he says posting a train designed by a german

>>18511966
japan's train network is an order of magnitude more efficient than germany's

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>>18511966
Japan created shinkansen

>>18511966
How come German trains are never on time?

>>18512949
Germany does the same bullshit the US does and makes bullet trains share tracks with cargo trains and regional transport + Germany is federalized to a fault and every little bumpkin village thinks they deserve their own dedicated stop, so all the bullet trains are constantly deaccelerating to stop by in every fucking "Wer?" Dorf

>>18514498
Switzerland is also highly federalized and doesn't have this problem

>>18511710
I could actually talk about this at length. After WW2, Japanese infrastructure and manufacturing capability was practically nonexistent from the firebombing campaigns. The US and its allies sent experts over to help Japan rebuild. Among them was a man named W. Edwards Deming who is a legend in the business world, particularly in continuous improvement fields. He gathered managers and leaders from many of Japan's industries and taught them management principles that they should incorporate. Among them was a man named Taiichi Ohno who worked for Toyota, he took many of Deming's principles, expanded on them, and set them into clear, repeatable systems that eventually became known as TPS, the Toyota Production System.
TPS focused heavily on eliminating waste, reducing variation, empowering line workers to stop defects at the source, and building processes that continuously refined themselves over time instead of relying on heroic effort. What made it so powerful was that it was systemic rather than motivational. Toyota built an organizational culture where improvement was expected at every level every day. Eventually American manufacturers realized Japan was outperforming them in quality, cost control, and reliability, so companies in the West started studying Toyota intensely. That is where concepts like Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma integration, Kanban systems, Just-In-Time logistics, and modern continuous improvement culture largely entered mainstream business practice.
To this day, Japanese Manufacturers give put the Deming Prize to industry leaders in continuous improvement, which if you know anything about Japan should be shocking for such an honor to be named after an American.
TL;DR an American Statistician is to thank for Japan's culture of continuous Improvement and its economic recovery Post WW2

>>18514505
Switzerland is the size of my backyard, genius.

>>18514513
to think an american is the reason why japan became so advanced, but america cannot adapt his principles

>>18514533
>but america cannot adapt his principles
No joke. He lamented this a lot. For the remaining 30ish years of his life he worked as a consultant and an instructor in these principles and would get requests from American companies to come and make them lean and he would basically be like, "You don't have the mindset to make these changes last, I can't help you."
In a way, Japan having to build everything from the ground up was a massive blessing because there was no established industry culture to fight against, or at least it was young enough that changing it didn't mean fighting with 25yr old-guard employees resistant to everything.
This shit is my bread and butter and I love doing continuous improvement, but genuinely the resistance you face from retards and cowards who don't get it or don't want to change is the worst part.

>>18514540
Yeah, the American electronics industry got fucked up the ass big time because they were going up against brand new Japanese factories using the latest technologies and young, adaptive engineers. They were getting outproduced by higher-grade product, faster and cheaper to build while still having superior reliability and capability.

>>18511716
Retard.

>>18511773
Yeah, you’re a fucking idiot.

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>>18511773
This. Dumbass weebs are sucking nip cock more than they deserve. They don't consider that Japanese success was mostly the fact that they were running a war economy in which they pumped a fuckton of money into their companies and resulted in a huge speculative asset bubble and the "Lost Decade"

>>18514947
>>18511773
Holy shit you fucking retards. Pick up a fucking book on the subject.

Efficiency bump

>>18514533
>>18514540
This is the inevitable course of literally everything. Everyone gets smug, lazy, rests on their laurels and then gets overtaken by the New Kid who innovates and tries something new. Of course that same New Kid will later also become lazy and smug and fall behind.
Happens in every industry I can think of.

>>18511710
the Jews are destroying it

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>>18514972
>Crazy Japanese success due to the bank of Japan pumping money into the economy and infrastructure
>"basedjak.png" WOWZERZ! IT MUST BE THE SUPERIOR JAPANESE MANAGEMENT!
Shut up nigger. You pick up a book, you pick up a book.

>>18516133
Seething brown retard.

>>18516133
>tell people to pick up a book
>don't name the book

>>18511739
I have always thought there is a similarity between Japan and England based on geography.I guess New Zealand could be added to the list for future candidate as well with its relationship with Australia.

>>18514513
this can't be the only reason because kaizen can be seen across every single type of business across the whole country, even in places like tiny restaurants run by elderly couples out of their home - i've seen michelin star chefs on holiday there visit random restaurants out in the country like that, totally unassuming places, and they say the food there is the best they've ever eaten

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>>18517148
As well as Madagascar and Newfoundland hypothetically.
The problem is historically there weren't the same trade networks in Australia, North America and Sub Saharan Africa as there were in Asia and Europe

>>18517203
The quality principles Deming taught are applicable in any type of business.

As a management philosophy Toyota. Conceptually, it is a related to a general secularized social ethic take on Shin Buddhism and Japanese Confucianism. It is related to the concept of true entrusting or shinjin. One simply does entrusts causation to function. Shin Buddhism holds that one will automatically develop virtues not as a practice but as a byproduct of Amida Buddha's vows, A type of non-practice that appears as gratitude. Even errors can be self-corrected for example and appear as a type of wisdom of which should have gratitude. Further in this context is actually a type of mental quality realized by a reciter. So the idea in contrast to certain other traditions is that positive mental qualities are realized gradually in one's life, even if ultimately it is realized immediately. Here is a video on the philosophy behind it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTfmCZnAsO0

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A fun fact is that simplicity, but also the same overdesign features, is also a key feature of many of their fountain pen brands. The idea is that one should simply use the pen and its features appear. Much like certain values can simply permeate a society, the idea pops up culturally just like self-sacrifice as has religious intonations in the west. Pic is of Japanese Platinum 3776 fountain pen.

>>18514913
Good rebuttal!