(New) The pursuit of professionalism In fields that require highly specialized expertise, one is not able to operate a business or manage an organization without the relevant knowledge an… 2024-09-02 Noriyuki Morimoto Why do we talk about occupation to describe ourselves? Why do people refer to their occupation to explain who they are? To start with, what is an occupation? As long as we live, we will always consume t… 2024-08-19 Noriyuki Morimoto The kindness of refusing a loan There is an old Japanese saying that means “not lending money is a form of kindness.” It implies that even when you are able to lend money, and even i… 2024-08-05 Noriyuki Morimoto The necessity of home economics behind the use of financial functions In order to live abundantly in retirement, you need to invest a certain percentage of your income to accumulate wealth during your working years, so t… 2024-07-22 Noriyuki Morimoto From financial institutions to financial functions The current FSA is committed to holding the perspective of the users of financial services, i.e., the public. In other words, the role of the FSA is n… 2024-07-08 Noriyuki Morimoto When asked your occupation, say whatever you want People need income to live and work to earn income. Since there are many different ways to work and many different types of work, when asked about occ… 2024-06-24 Noriyuki Morimoto The essence of leadership is to be customer-centric The FSA is driving an unprecedented self-reform initiative as a government agency to position the public as its customers. The FSA is supervising fina… 2024-06-10 Noriyuki Morimoto The ingenuity of the right kind of wrongdoing in Saikaku’s story The following is a story from Ihara Saikaku's Buke Giri Monogatari (Stories of samurai ethics). Aoto Fujitsuna, who had lost some small coins in the r… 2024-05-27 Noriyuki Morimoto Common sense for a bank, absurdity for society Organizations exist as accumulations of countless rules and regulations, detailed action procedures, and bundles of slips, forms, and templates that a… 2024-05-13 Noriyuki Morimoto Meaningless compliance is hurting productivity Aoto Fujitsuna, portrayed by the Edo period writer Ihara Saikaku, offered a large sum of money to a number of laborers to help find some coins he had … 2024-04-30 Noriyuki Morimoto 12»