【Conversation】 Learn Life Lessons from “The Analects of Confucius” - Explore the Way Human Beings Should Live and the Way Leaders Should Be in the Universal Document
Yoshiyuki Kasai (Chairman of Central Japan Railway Company) & Hei Seki (Critic)
Mr. Yoshiyuki Kasai was one of the key players of the privatization and separation of the Japanese National Railways, and he is also one of the leaders in the Japanese business world. He has achieved large-scale reforms in businesses, and underlying that force was the words from “The Analects of Confucius”, of which he was taught by his father, who was a Japanese teacher, when he was in elementary school. On the other hand, Mr. Seki also learned about “The Analects of Confucius” from his grandfather during his boyhood, at the peak of the Cultural Revolution in China, and the teachings have become his body and soul. Although the two were born in different nations and at different periods in time, they exchange their views here on human studies through “The Analects of Confucius.”
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【Conversation】 Live the Present, Led by the Teachings of Old Sages
Aoji Tanasawa (President of ELEGANCE Co., Ltd.) & Ryuichiro Misaki (Writer)
Ms. Aoji Tanasawa suddenly developed myasthenia, which is an intractable disease with unknown cause, in her twenties. On the other hand, Mr. Ryuichiro Misaki developed cancer in his forties, when he was a busy corporate director. Both of them had a brush with death, encountered teachings of old sages, became conscious of their missions, and have lived their new lives. The two people, who are walking their own ways respectively to do their best to radiate their saved lives, talk about the impressive teachings of old sages.
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【Conversation】 Advance, while Learning and Being Taught
Jiro Ushio (Chairman of USHIO INC.) ＆ Danjuro Ichikawa XII (Kabuki Actor）
This March, Kabuki, the traditional performing art that Japan can be proud of, has opened a new page. A Kabuki performance was performed for the first time in history at the Paris Opera House with a proud history and tradition. Danjuro Ichikawa XII made a strong impression on the world, by setting the audience alight with his heroic Roppo* and the statements in French. While basking in the afterglow of the historic stage, he talks about the path to reach there, and conditions of first class people etc., together with Mr. Jiro Ushio, who has been continuously supporting his activities.
*Roppo is a unique way of walking to express the character, and is mainly used upon getting out off the stage. In this case, Danjuro got out of the stage by using his heroic Roppo of energetically stamping the stage.
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