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Following Inner voice

After graduating the college, I started to work for Panasonic Corporation.

Before starting working, the company sent two books written by Mr. Konosuke Matsushita, founder of Panasonic. It was an assignment from the company to read them and write what I thought. I read the books and got very impressed by the philosophy of Mr. Matsushita.

The section I was assigned in the…

First Bell Ringing

When I was seventeen years old, I happened to put on a radio at one evening. Then, vivid and rhythmical voice jumped into my ears. I was fascinated with the feeling. Something woke up inside of me.

The program was for learning English conversation. The rhythm and feeling of live English conversation fascinated me.

I was not a student who studies steadily and hard in school. However, I changed from the…

Wish for Peace

From my childhood, I always had strong wish that peace would be realized in the whole world.

When I was a child, I happened to listen to one piece of music and I cried hard.

The music was was “Finlandia”. At that time, I did not know what kind of message given  in the music. However,  the moment I heard the melody, I started to cry. I was surprised to see myself and did not know why I was responding that…

Amazon Paradise

By working in the middle of Tokyo, the message I received from Amazon jungle became stronger to me.

Those messages became more meaningful to me as time goes by.

In this one year, it finally became clear to me what the messages of Amazon really meant, and I have been thrilled.

I want to write the detailed story in Amazon here, to see the meaning of them deeper.

I wish I could reflect them to me who is in the fast moving society right…