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Came across a really humorous post about airplane travel on Economist.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7884654

Japanese Companies

The most important fact that has excited me is the extent these Japanese companies have spread. There are so many Japanese companies that have ruled and are continuing to rule the World. Literally the entire WORLD. Toyota is soon to overtake General Motors as the largest car company in the world, by number of vehicles.

The following is a list of Japanese comapnies that have influenced everyone's life in some way or the other. This list is far from complete. And it focuses on the brands that we Indians are familiar with. Of course NRI's will defenitely have some more to add.

Alpine car audio

Asahi Glass

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Bridgestone

Canon

Casio

Citizen

Daihatsu

Daikin Industries

Denon

Epson

Fuji Electric

Subaru

Fuji Photo Film

Fujitsu

Hitachi

Honda

Isetan

Isuzu Motors

Japan Airlines

JVC Victor

Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Kenwood

Kyocera

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

Mazda

Mitsubishi

Nikon

Nintendo

Nissan Motors

NTT

Olympus

Omron

Onkyo

Panasonic

PENTAX

Pioneer

Ricoh

Sanyo

SEGA

Seiko

Seiyu Group

Sharp Corporation

Sony

Sumitomo

Suzuki

Takashimaya

TDK Corporation

TEAC Corporation

Toshiba

Toyota

UFJ Holdings

Yamaha Motors

Yokogawa Electric

Nippon Steel is the second largest steel maker after the takeover of Arcelor by Mittal Steel. Nippon Shipbuilding is supposed to be the largest ship building entity in the world with fierce competition from S.Korea's Hyundai.

Anyway, the performance of these companies and thier quality products is an excellent tale of how quality and essence is important and not style or 'cool'. Japanese way of thinking is not to make themselves famous or known. Rather, they concentrate on the essence and need of the product. Everything and anything in Japan has arrived today out of need and necessity and not for a 'show-off'. This also is the main contributing factor for thier Economy, the second largest in the world and also developed drom scratch after the end of the devastating World War II. The entire population of Japan is 120 million with some 21% above 60 years of age as of 2006.

And the most relevant to these would be the fact that IBM's ThinkPad range of Laptops were developed in IBM's Yamato Laboratory here in Japan. Even today this Lab is the core behind the ThinkPad's leadership. Yamato Lab is referred to as the birthplace of the ThinkPad.

This rise and excellence may be attributed to the extensive workaholic Japanese people. But there is a different story also. Japanese, just like thier products, are very efficient and sincere. They work when they are supposed to and dont chat, browse, etc. Thier working style takes into account the neccestities of the job on hand and the earliest possible deadline that can be tagged to it. Everything is carried out as a process and the procedure strictly adhered too. The processes are proven in today's competitive environment and are constantly reinvented.

Guess.... this is a lot for a single post. Will be back soon.