Views of Japanese CEOs ; Interviews on their Carers and Leadership. RIAM (Research Institute of Advanced Management), an NPO affiliated with Graduate School of Business Administration at Kobe University, has conducted a series of interviews with CEOs of major Japanese Corporations.
We are glad to announce that most of those interviews, which are given official permission to disseminate through our website, are now to be access for those who are interested in how Japanese CEOs make sense of their experience in English.
Among them included are Yoshiharu Fukuhara at Shiseido, Kaoru Seto at Yamato Unyu, to name a few.
For those who are adept in Japanese language, please feel free to contact us for access to original interviews in Japanese.
Business Insight English Ver.（PDF）
| No. | Company’s name (in the time) | Name Position (in the time) |
Title | Interviewed | Season | Business Insight Vol. |
| Daiei, Inc. | Isao Nakauchi (Chairman and President) |
How Will the Corporation Management Change? | 1993 | Spring | ||
| Co-op Kobe | Isao Takamura (Chairman) |
Organizing movements – The Third Step to the Community Business | 1993 | Summer | ||
| Aoyama Trading Co., Ltd. | Goro Aoyama (President) |
Secret of Aoyama Trading Co., Ltd. Growth | 1994 | Spring | ||
| Nikko Securities Inc. | Kichiro Takao (President) |
Corporate philosophy and strategy of Nikko Securities Inc. | 1994 | Autumn | ||
| Nihon Satellite Broadcasting Corp | Shoji Sakuma (President) |
Possibility of satellite broadcasting under media competition | 1994 | Winter | ||
| S-SYSTEM Co.,Ltd. | Masafumi Miyamoto (Representative Directort) |
Business System to Create Software | 1995 | Spring | ||
| Shiseido Co., Ltd. | Yoshiharu Fukuhara (President) |
Corporate Roots and My Own Style | 1995 | Winter | ||
| Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | Tetsuro Kawakami (Chairman) |
Toward the Creation of Kobe as an International City | 1996 | Spring | ||
| Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd | Masao Maekawa (Chairman) |
Independent Unit Management and Corporation as “Ba” (the site) that Let Us Live” | 1996 | Summer | ||
| Muneaki Masuda Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. | Muneaki Masuda (President) |
The Way an Entrepreneur Lives – Full of Stimuli After the Noon of Life | 1996 | Autumn | ||
| Calbee Foods Co., Ltd. | Masahiko Matsuo (President) |
Establish continual business system of “Agricultural and industrial unification”, “Commercial and industrial unification” and logistics | 1996 | Winter | ||
| Non-Destructive Inspection Co., Ltd. | Takashi Yamaguchi (President) |
Management that Respects Humanity: Footstep of the Growth of a Research and Development Service Corporation | 1997 | Summer | ||
| Pasona Group Inc. | Yasuyuki Nanbu (President) |
Think about Earthquake Restoration by Business | 1997 | Autumn | ||
| UNICUL International, Inc. | Kaori Sasaki (President) |
Creation out of a Global Human Network | 1998 | Summer | ||
| Kyocera Communication System Co., Ltd. | Naoyuki Morita (President) |
Amoeba Management System makes organization active | 1998 | Winter | ||
| Komatsu Ltd. | Satoru Anzaki (President) |
Software without manufacturing base would be meaningless | 1999 | Summer | ||
| Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. | Masatoshi Tezuka (President) |
As a Leader of Local Cultural Creation ~ Private Railway Management, From the Past to the Future ~ | 1999 | Autumn | ||
| Felissimo Corporation | Kazuhiko Yazaki (President) |
Focusing on what we want to produce | 2000 | Spring | ||
| Takako Industries Inc. | Yoshitomo Ishizaki (President) |
Suggestive selling company will survive | 2000 | Autumn | ||
| Kobe Consumer’s Association and Federation of Women’s Organization | Michiko Senoo (Executive Director) |
Consumer’s activity to solve problem | 2001 | Spring | ||
| Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. | Iichi Shingu (Chairman) |
Hold spirits, courage and persistence, I deal with a matter | 2001 | Summer | ||
| NTT Data Science Corporation | Yukio Nagashima (President) |
Start as company functional split-up and aim to be the top in the Japanese IT Consultant industry with free and vigorous corporate culture created by removing administrative thought | 2001 | Autumn | ||
| Kume Co., Ltd. | Nobuyuki Kume (President) |
Cooperate Management that Sees Through the Times | 2002 | Spring | ||
| Shiseido Co., Ltd. | Morio Ikeda (President) |
Leadership with emphasis on the feeling of serving people-Leadership with the theory-in-practice of “Serve,” which he finally reached through his career and experiences | 2002 | Summer | ||
| Sumitomo Corporation | Kenji Miyahara (Chairman) |
Traces and vision of reform for rapid growth of general trading company | 2002 | Autumn | ||
| Elephant Design Co., Ltd.(CUUSOO SYSTEM co., Ltd) | Kohei Nishiyama (Chairman) |
User-Oriented Marketing System | 2002 | Winter | ||
| Mayor of the City of Kobe | Tatsuo Yada (Mayor) |
Walk to be the Mayor of Kobe and the Future-Talk on His Career as a Mayor and His Leadership | 2003 | Summer | ||
| Moriban Co, Ltd. | Masami Mori (President) |
Persistently observe seven conditions to keep high-value added management | 2003 | Autumn | ||
| Tokyo Healthcare Foundation, Nerima General Hospital | Shuhei Iida (CEO) |
Continuous Management Innovations at a Health Care Field-Purposes and Issues of Healthcare Version TQM Told by the Top of a Hospital | 2003 | Winter | ||
| Frank Russell Company, Ltd. | Masanori Tsuno (President) |
The Professionals Supporting Pension Operation in Japan | 2004 | Spring | ||
| Meitec Corporation | Kosuke Nishimoto (President) |
Progressing Engineering Outsourcing-Best matching system to coordinate the engineer’s labor market | 2004 | Summer | ||
| Matsui Securities Co., Ltd. | Michio Matsui (President) |
President Makes a Decision to Throw Away, and Commits Himself into the Decision?President of Matsui Securities who Provide a Place of Stock Trading to Individual Investors | 2004 | Autumn | ||
| Hankyu Holdings, Inc. | Kazuo Sumi (President) |
Management of a Private Railway to Increase the Value of the Areas along the Railway and to Develop the Areas along the Railway | 2005 | Summer | ||
| Yamaha Corporation | Shuji Ito (President) |
Let the Yamaha Brand Shine as Everyone in the Company Thinks Strategically | 2005 | Autumn | ||
| Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd. | Kazuhiro Kanauchi (Senior Managing Executive Officer General Manager, Overseas Division) |
Mission Link Between Working (Corporate Development) and Studying (MBA) | 2005 | Winter | ||
| Mizuno Corporation | Masato Mizuno (President) |
Austerity and fortitude Management Strategy | 2006 | Spring | ||
| Tamanoi Vinegar Corporation | Tsutomu Harino (President) |
He’s fascinated with something brilliant | 2006 | Summer | ||
| Toys Club | Teruhisa Kitahara (President) |
Successful hint for hobby business | 2006 | Autumn | ||
| Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. | Kaoru Seto (President) |
Specialty of the New President who Created “Cool Takkyubin” | 2007 | Spring | ||
| House Foods Corporation | Akira Oze (President) |
We Want to Reach Out to All the “Houses” in the World | 2007 | Summer | ||
| Shiseido Co., Ltd | Shinzo Maeda (President) |
Eventful Life of the man who reformed a “Beautiful Well-established Company” | 2007 | Autumn | ||
| Calbee Foods Co., Ltd. | Yasuo Nakata (President) |
Ideal Innovation that the revolutionist aimed | 2007 | Winter |