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週刊NY生活[English Edition］

Japanese Businesses
Must Go American,
Says Yukuo Takenaka
Shukan NYSeikatsu
interviewed
Y u k u oTakenaka, aCPA basedin the UnitedStates whohas helped
m a n yJapanese corporations expand their American operations and brought a number of merger and acquisition deals to a successful
conclusion. The following are excerptsof his statement before his upcoming
lecture at the Nippon Club onFebruary 28:
Japan’s domestic markets arebound to shrink due to an aging society with fewer births. Major Japanesemanufacturers have already expanded
their operations overseas, and otherbusinesses must follow suit. TheUnited States in particular is the only
developed country with an expansive
population pyramid, enjoying a largepool of youths — a condition conducive to sustained economic growth.
To succeed in America, you haveto become an American player. You
have to reach out to more American
customers. Among Japanese restaurants here, for example, the successful
ones are those that attract many local
customers. Another key to success isto motivate American employees andemploying and retaining talent by giving them mandates and opportunitiesto take action as well as financial
recognition of high performance. Itshould be understood that, unlike theJapanese who think like an agricultural people, Americans are hunters,
being mobile in search of prey and afrontier.
President Trump’s “AmericaFirst” policy should be a great boon toJapanese businesses, as Washington’s
promotion of manufacturing in theUnited States should serve as advantage to Japanese companies that havealready been producing goods here.
Japanese auto makers are doing
extremely well, helped by its operations in the United States; their innovative approaches to manufacturingsuch as kaizen (improvement) andkanban (timely delivery) have now
taken deep roots here. What Japanesebusinesses need is to act locally wherever they operate overseas while
remembering their Japanese origin.
(Ryoichi Miura/Translated by KenjiNakano)

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2019年（平成31年）2月16日（土）JAPAN VOICECOOL JAPAN from New Yorkers’ Viewpoints
The 2019 JAA-Honjo
Scholarship Seeks
Qualified CandidatesProfessor Sue Atsuko Kawashima
Honorably Receives
Japanese Order
The Conferment Ceremony of the2018 Order of the Rising Sun, Silver
Rays for Professor Sue Atsuko
Kawashima (Associate Head of theCUNY Hunter College JapaneseProgram) was held at theAmbassador’ s Residence on theevening of January 25.
She was acknowledged for her out-

https://www.yomiuri-info.jp/daily_yomiuri/nys/standing contributions to the field ofJapanese Studies and the developmentof cultural exchanges and friendshipbetween the United States and Japan.
Prof. Kawashima has been serving
Hunter College as a Japanese language
educator since 1988. She founded theJapanese Culture Lecture in 2001 andexpanded it by providing classes on
United States-Japan relations.
In 2003, Hunter College successfully promoted the field of JapaneseStudies as a degree-awarding programand she was inaugurated as the head of
the program when Japanese language
and cultural programs were founded.

With these boosts to the JapaneseStudies program, students became able
to earn an associate degree, majoring inJapanese Studies and combining otherrelated classes offered throughout theCUNY system including Hunter College.
Currently, about 500 students take classes each semester.
Prof. Kawashima not only contributes to expanding the range of theJapanese Studies field and pro-Japanese
population in this way but also supports
spreading knowledge in the Japanese
language in English-speaking areas
worldwide by creating a dictionary forJapanese learners.
Furthermore, Kawashima served as acommittee member in selecting candidates for the Japan Exchange andTeaching (JET) Program for 21 years
until 2013 and continues her great contribution to the program through businesspublishing relations, thereby assisting inunderstanding and friendship between
the United States and Japan. (RyoichiMiura/Translated by Hiroko Makabe)

Through generous funding fromthe Honjo Foundation, the JapaneseAmerican Association (JAA) islooking for qualified candidates for
its 2019 JAA-Honjo Scholarship.
This is open to students who will beenrolled in a full-time course ofgraduate study (except in the fieldsof medicine, music, studio art andperforming arts) at an accredited
American university in the greater
New York area during the 20192020 academic year. The student
should be able to demonstrate aninterest in and ideally is alreadyinvolved in furthering United StatesJapan relations. The deadline forapplications is February 25, 2019 atnoon. You can download the PDF
application form and submit it to theJAA. Along wth your application,please include the following:
1. a resume or CV
2. two letters of recommendation (atleast one from a professor)
3. undergraduate and graduate transcripts
4. an essay on how your current
course of study will help further
United States-Japan relations (500 to750 words)
If you are selected as a recipient, you will be expected to stay intouch with the Honjo Foundation inTokyo, Japan to let them know thestatus of your studies and how you
have used your scholarship.
You may submit your application to the following address:
The Japanese American Associationof New York (JAA), 49 West 45thStreet, 11th Floor, New York, NY10036 (please also write “HONJOSCHOLARSHIP” on the envelope)
If you have any questions pleaseemail info@jaany.org or call 212840-6942. In previous years, theamount of the scholarship has
ranged from $3,000 to $9,000 for
five students.

Capturing the Super Bowl
for Over Half a Century:
Sports Photographer
Still on the Ground

Tak Makita
86 Years Old
On February 3, 2019 Super Bowl 53
was held in Atlanta, Georgia. It is one of
the biggest annual professional sports
games in the United States. The winnersof both the American Football Conference(AFC) and the National FootballConference (NFC), which consist of 32teams in total, played over the championship. Tak Makita (86), a sports photographer native to Seattle and currently living in New Jersey, is a former American
football player of Kansei Gakuin
University. He has photographed theSuper Bowl 51 times. He recalls his memories of the games and this year’s photoshoot:“This is the 51st Super Bowl for me.
We had two of three photographers who
have been in the field for all 53 games thistime because one of them was absent dueto illness. My record of 51 games comes
after theirs, and apparently I’m one of thelegendary photographers. At the championship neither the New England Patriotsof the AFC nor the Los Angeles Rams ofthe NFC could get a touchdown until theend of the game. It could be boring for abillion viewers in not only the UnitedStates but also around the world. For us,
the on-site professional photographers, itappeared to be boring as well. But, even tothis legendary photographer who hasrecorded over 1,100 games for 50 years,
this lowest-score game may go down infootballhistory.”(RyoichiMiura/Translated by Etsuko Noda)

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