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Yo Ishikawa (Mendicant Priest) & Kayoko Sakaoka (Representative of Haguruma-no-ie)　

Mr. Yo Ishikawa has been living his life in the “geza^*1” training of humility, as the last disciple of Mr. Tenko Nishida^*2, the founder of Ittoen^*3. Ms. Kayoko Sakaoka has been supporting the recovery of children with problems in the “Haguruma-no-ie”, or the House of a Cogwheel. The two have overcome various conflicts and feuds, and have been planting many seeds of pleasure. They exchange their views sharing their experiences, and that the current society is in deeper disarray and we should have the heart to return it to order, and to what the parent-child relationship should be as it is the foundation of our society.

 

 

Takeo Higuchi (CEO of Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.)

Mr. Takeo Higuchi is at the helm of Daiwa House Industry, which is a large organization with the sales of \1.6 trillion and 13,000 employees. Mr. Higuchi met the founding owner, Mr. Nobuo Ishibashi, and had been under his tutelage. Mr. Higuchi took up the slack in the organization, which was on the verge of a crisis after years of stability, and has injected new life into the company admirably. Let’s look into the boiling water-like hot business life of Mr. Higuchi, who has been planting seeds of pleasure through management.

 

Akira Joko (Representative of Kokorozashi Network) & Noboru Takano (Regional Director of Sales of the Tokyo International Sales Office, the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company of Japan)

 

The Ritz-Carlton has an established reputation with its full of hospitality service. The service philosophy of this hotel, which came from abroad, is said to be very similar to the spirit of Matsushita Electric Industrial, which was said to be the representative of Japanese-style management. Mr. Akira Joko, who was under Mr. Konosuke Matsushita’s^*1 tutelage and was once selected as the head of Matsushita Institute of Government and Management, and Mr. Noboru Takano, Regional Director of Sales of the Tokyo International Sales Office, the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company of Japan, discuss the essence of service to give pleasure to customers.

 

Tadashi Tachibana　(Representative of Ninomiya Kinjiro-no-kai) & Issei Terada (Representative of Fujin-sosho-kankokai）

At the end of the Edo Period^*1, Sontoku Ninomiya^*2 won the domain lord’s confidence despite his origin as a farmer under the feudal system, and headed agricultural promotion. He established his unique “Hotoku^*3” style of diligent labor, remaining within bounds, and giving to others, and saved more than 600 villages. His way of living and his words have been giving hope and pleasure to modern people, even now. Mr. Tadashi Tachibana, Representative of Ninomiya Kinjiro^*2-no-kai, made up his mind at the age of 85 to disseminate Sontoku’s philosophy and its implementation with a strong sense of mission, and Mr. Issei Terada, Representative of Fujin-sosho-kankokai, who edited the best seller “Daily Word from Sontoku Ninomiya”, talk about the greatness and magnetism of Sontoku Ninomiya.