Kaizen, kamishibai, and kintsugi are important Japanese concepts. Kaizen refers to continuous improvement practices involving all employees. Kamishibai was a form of street theater using illustrated picture boards. Kintsugi is the art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer, treating breaks as part of an object's history rather than something to disguise. The Japanese concept of ikigai relates to finding one's purpose and meaning in life through nurturing relationships and pursuing passions. Origami is also important in teaching geometry and shapes. Sadako Sasaki was a girl who folded cranes before dying from atomic bomb injuries at age 12. Hindu deities like Saraswati and G

1. JapanJapan
Concepts in Japan
By
Jai Prathap, CCO, AYI

2. Japanese “K”oncepts
KaizenKamishibai Kintsugi
The art of precious scarsPaper play theater Continuous improvement

3. Japanese “K”oncepts
• Kaizen : is the Japanese word for “continuous improvement". In business,
kaizen refers to activities that continuously improve all functions and
involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers.
• Kamishibai (Japanese: "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theatre
and storytelling. Kamishibai was told by a kamishibaiya (kamishibai
narrator) who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boardsnarrator) who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards
that he or she placed in a miniature stage-like device and narrated the
story by changing each image.
• Kintsugi (the art of precious scars, "golden joinery"), also known as
Kintsukuroi ("golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken
pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or
platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it
treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than
something to disguise.

4. Japanese Ikigai book review
The Japanese island of Okinawa, people
live longer than anywhere else in the
world. There, finding your ikigai is
considered the key to longevity - and to
happiness. The Okinawans know that all
lives are valuable; for them, your ikigai is
the lens that will help bring your value intothe lens that will help bring your value into
focus. Both inspiring and comforting, this
book will help you uncover your own ikigai,
and equip you to change your life. Leave
stress and urgency behind, and throw
yourself into finding your purpose,
nurturing your friendships, and pursuing
your passions. Make every day of your life
joyful and meaningful with Ikigai

5. Origami
• Origami is also important in teaching symmetry; for many of the folds, whatever is
done to one side is done to the other. ... In addition, paper-folding allows students
to create and manipulate basic geometric shapes such as squares, rectangles, and
triangles. Origami is pleasantly nostalgic. One remembers, perhaps, when one was
a child and made their first bird that looked like a crane but had few features in
common with the real bird.

6. Sadako Sasaki - Hiroshima
• Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl
who was 2 years old when an
American atomic bomb was ... A
popular version of the story is that
Sasaki fell short of her goal ofSasaki fell short of her goal of
folding 1,000 cranes, having folded
only 644 before her death, and
that her ...Died: October 25, 1955
(aged 12);

7. Hinduism in Japan
Saraswati
Saraswati Temple
Ganesha
https://www.inditales.com/hindu-deities-indian-culture-japan/

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