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 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 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 Restoration of the Status Order and the Limits of Townsperson Culture in Saikaku The actions of Aoto Fujitsuna, as described by the Edo period writer Ihara Saikaku, could be seen as a precursor to Keynesian economic theory. Fujitsu… 2024-04-15 Noriyuki Morimoto Learning economics through a Story from the Edo Period The following story was written by Ihara Saikaku, a prominent writer of the Edo period: One autumn night in the Kamakura period, Aoto Fujitsuna, a … 2024-04-01 Noriyuki Morimoto Whatever happened to the window-side tribe One term that should be included in the Showa Dictionary of Dead Words is "window-side tribe.” This is a Japanese term for middle-aged or senior corpo… 2023-08-21 Noriyuki Morimoto Because creation is incidental The steps that lead to creation are established as creation when they are embraced by society. As those early steps, Stendhal wrote only “to the happy… 2023-04-03 Noriyuki Morimoto Creation is madness Creation cannot arise from the workings of the logical intellect. Intellectual activity only reveals what already exists within the whole in an analyt… 2023-02-06 Noriyuki Morimoto 12»
