Where will you go this summer? Some people here told me that they will go to Paris. (Photo: An hotel owned by Paris Hilton's family)
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Paris-Moveable Feast
Where will you go this summer? Some people here told me that they will go to Paris. (Photo: An hotel owned by Paris Hilton's family)
Friday, June 15, 2007
Toyokeizai TK
Please visit the above URL (it's in Japanese).
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Photobucket
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Mayor of Palo Alto
I like Ms. Kishimoto's brave, bright and challenging attitude for protecting environment by riding a bike, saving energies at home etc. She is the first generation of Japanese American.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Wind Turbines
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Oracle's Mr. Ellison

If you are interested in, please read as follows. The photo was taken by Jochen (siegleklingphoto.com).
For global marketing, understanding culture is very important,” said Oracle’s Larry Ellison recently at a convention in San Francisco. Forbes magazine’s 12th richest person is known for his love of Japanese culture. He owns a priceless collection of 16th-century Samurai armor, has yachts named Sayonara and Sakura (“goodbye” and “cherry blossoms” in Japanese), and lives in a Kyoto-style house, “Sanbashi,” which sits on 33 acres in Woodside, Calif., and has been under construction for 10 years, at a cost of $100 million.
“The Japanese are at once the most aggressive culture on earth and the most polite. There is this incredible arrogance combined with unbelievable humility — a magnificent balance. And I think, in building our company, we tried to, as much as possible, replicate that culture: to be very aggressive on the one hand and humble on the other.”
Ellison indeed was influenced by Japanese culture. One of his first jobs in California was working at Amdahl, which is 45 percent-owned by the Japanese company Fujitsu.
He took a business trip to Japan and visited Kyoto, where he was stunned.
“I simply didn’t know such a thing could exist. There were these wonderful gardens that were designed to promote intimacy between the viewer in the garden and the garden itself. Japan is one of the centers of Zen Buddhism, and what Zen tries to do … in fact, what the entire Japanese culture seems to do is intelligently pursue tranquility.”
The 59-year-old founder’s favorite saying comes from the Mongol warrior Genghis Khan: “It’s not sufficient that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.”
“I’m addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win,” Ellison said.
As he has looked to the East, his company has mixed Japanese and Chinese business. The result: the official inauguration of Oracle Japan’s China Business Development Unit in Shanghai. With integrated expertise from Oracle Japan and Oracle China, this newly created unit will be fully dedicated to supporting Japanese-owned companies as they rapidly extend their businesses into China and seek to deploy IT systems quickly and smoothly.
China’s vast market size, rapid rate of economic development and large skills base have propelled huge numbers of Japanese-owned companies to establish business operations in the world’s most populous country. There are more than 15,000 Japanese-owned companies operating in China, with an estimated total investment reaching $4.2 billion, second only to U.S. investment in China, which totals $5.4 billion.
Oracle has business relationships with the Chinese Linux company Red Flag and with Legend Computer, the Chinese state-owned computer company. One of Oracle’s big rivals is IBM, which recently sold its PC division to Lenovo (Legend).
Ellison says the whole Western notion is to see ideas bear fruit. This has certain advantages, but it can be a double-edged sword. “I always hear artists saying, ‘I don’t want to do that; it’s been done before.’ Well, the Japanese say, ‘I want to do exactly what has been done before, but just a little bit better.’ They’re completely different points of view.”
Next, what he will learn from Chinese culture?
Saturday, June 9, 2007
It's not an easy job!
モノ書きって、気ままで楽しそうに見えますがそんなに楽じゃないですよ。確かに大新聞にいた時はまあまあのお給料でしたが、フリーになるとどうでしょうか…。持ち歩く荷物も、なかなか重くパソコン、デジタルカメラ、ポッドキャスト用小型ビデオ、レコーダー、プレス用資料、そして最近はGPSまで持ってうろうろしています。ラスベガスのCESに1人で取材したときは、ホテルと会場が遠いし死にました。アメリカでは日本のジャーナルの知名度が低いのでアポは取り難く、それでも知らない場所に運転して行きます。Blogやストリーミング・ビデオの影響で、先細りの業界です。温かい目で見守ってね!
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