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...hallmarks of Japan Inc. during the booming 1980s. Not only are company-sponsored drinkathons back, so too are subsidized dorms for single employees as well as corporate outings and visits to the founder's ancestral grave. "We realized that workplace communication was becoming nonexistent," explains human-resources manager Shinji Matsuyama, whose company, Alps Electric, brought together 3,000 workers for its first company-wide undokai, or mini-Olympics, in 14 years. According to Matsuyama, the shared experience of playing dodge ball and skipping rope "helped unite people under a common goal...
...only are company-sponsored drinking marathons back, so too are subsidized dorms for single employees as well as corporate outings such as hot-spring retreats and annual visits to the company founder's ancestral grave. "We realized that workplace communication was becoming nonexistent," explains human-resources manager Shinji Matsuyama, whose company, Alps Electric, spent several million dollars last year to bring together about 3,000 workers for its first company-wide undokai, or mini-Olympics, in 14 years. According to Matsuyama, the shared experience of playing dodge ball and skipping rope "helped unite people under a common goal...
...through plan, and no creative destruction will take place. "I've heard of one woman closing her account and then renting a safe at the same bank and stuffing her cash in there," says financial planner Masayuki Kihira. "But that's a rare example." Eighty-one-year-old Sachi Matsuyama of Tokyo recently closed her account, but with no particular urgency. "Interest rates were so low, there was no reason to keep my money there," she says. " I just have enough saved to pay for my funeral." That's becoming a kind of national mantra. "We are rich enough...
...Matsuyama, who was described by faculty members last night as Japan's most prominent journalist, took jabs at the American mass media, which he said sometimes exercises its power improperly...
...quality of the [American] statesman has gone down," Matsuyama said. "I'm afraid the mass media is partly to blame...