YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Welcome back to this latest episode of Japan's Top Business Interviews.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I'm your host, Dr.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Greg Storey, President of Dale County Talker Training.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

My special guest today is Satoru Hiraga,

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

who is the Chairman of Marsh Brokers Japan.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Hiraga -san,

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

thank you.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Welcome.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Thank you very much,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to exchange

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

our thoughts today.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I'm very much excited,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but besides,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I'm a little nervous because it's not so many times

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

happened, and today,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

especially in English.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

If that is something that I need to just,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

you know,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

correct my words or some sentences.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

No problem.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

In fact,

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

we've spoken in English before and I noticed how good your English was.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So I'm fully confident we won't have any problems.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

It's more like a kindergarten English.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I don't think so.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But,

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

you know, you've had a very long career.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

doing many,

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

many things in business.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So give us the background.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

How did you get to this particular company and this particular job?

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

What were you doing beforehand?

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Okay.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Firstly,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

just after I graduated the university,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

it's in the early 1980s,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I was joining one

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

of the Japanese financial institutions,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Japanese bank.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Nowadays it's called Mizuho.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And after 10 years later,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I really like to go abroad

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

to, how do I say,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

build up more carrier or my experiences.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

However,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I wasn't in that position or

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the level to be recommended by

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the bank to be sent to abroad,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

any of the countries.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So it's the year or the age of around 30s,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and I had to decide how I should do.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then my decision was,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

after I had a discuss with my father and my families,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and then decided to,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

anyway, quit the job.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And then,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

firstly,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

need to re -educate myself,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and then decided to go to business school in the States.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And after spending a year and a half abroad,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

meaning in the States,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and graduate the business MBA.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

getting the certificate.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then I found out,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and I was asked by the current company,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

why don't you just come to our company?

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because we are looking for any person who likes to work abroad,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

means outside Japan,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

to step up his or her

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

own carrier.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And I asked,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

where is it?

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

That's in Europe.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And it's my first experience to be stationed in Europe.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So I was very much excited,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

one side.

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But on the other side,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I have no idea about the culture,

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language.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I spoke a little bit French because I learned at the high school,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

university,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and also during my working career in the

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

bank, I was...

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I was having the opportunity to work,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

not work, study for a year,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

French, the basic French.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

okay, that's a very good offer.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And then I decided to enter the company because it's

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

very much exciting for us to raise my carrier.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

That year,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

that is around 1990s.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

My age around 30,

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S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

mid 30.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And it's not too late to change all my working career and

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

something, and it's more exciting to be,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

because it's quite fresh,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

new, anything in Europe.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I was asked to be stationed in Germany.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But of course,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the territory itself is not only Germany,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but some of the countries in the continent of Europe,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

including France,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Netherlands,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Belgium,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Italy,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Switzerland,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and Eastern Europe,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and some of the area in Spain.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So Marsh is pretty interesting,

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

sending a Japanese executive to Europe.

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

That's quite counterintuitive,

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S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

isn't it?

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I believe we are the initiators to send

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

any of the Japanese representatives in Europe.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

We,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

as the American company,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

of course, we have the Japanese representative stationed in the States

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

in total of like five,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

six persons from the early 80s.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

However,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

in Europe,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

There's one person who's been already in Germany

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

from the year 1987.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But of course...

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

To manage everything by his own,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

he's only one person to be stationed in Europe.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And of course,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the territory of Europe is not small enough,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

because it's covering not only the continent,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but also UK.

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Oh,

5:24

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

okay, it's huge.

5:25

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So he needs some of the,

5:27

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

not supporters,

5:28

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but the colleagues to be working together with.

5:30

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And that's why I was recruited that time.

5:34

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And yes,

5:36

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but then after...

5:38

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

After I was stationing in Germany in the

5:43

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

year of 1991,

5:45

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and a year later,

5:47

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

there's another person to be stationing in the Netherlands,

5:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and another year later,

5:53

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

there's one other person in France.

5:55

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

These are all Japanese executives?

5:58

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Japanese executives.

5:58

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Wow, that's amazing.

5:59

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And 1995,

6:01

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

there's another person in the UK,

6:03

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

finally.

6:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Wow.

6:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So it's totaled like five peoples all around.

6:07

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right.

6:08

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And still it's continued.

6:09

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Very unique.

6:10

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Unique,

6:11

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

yes, it is.

6:12

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well, I think about,

6:12

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

you know, how many times when I've been traveling have

6:16

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I ever come across a Japanese general manager of

6:21

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

a five -star hotel overseas?

6:24

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

You never meet them.

6:25

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

You wonder,

6:26

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

you know, all these Japanese working in five -star hotels in Japan,

6:29

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

there's lots of them.

6:31

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But you don't seem to run into them when you're overseas traveling,

6:34

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

going to these hotels.

6:35

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

It's always Swiss,

6:36

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Germans,

6:38

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and whatever.

6:39

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

No Japanese.

6:40

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But here we've got Marsh.

6:41

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

They're really doing a great job populating Europe with a lot of senior Japanese executives.

6:45

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Very interesting.

6:46

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And another part is I said my

6:50

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

age is like a mid -30s.

6:52

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And my colleagues who are following in

6:56

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

a couple of years,

6:57

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

they are all in similar ages.

6:59

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right. So because mid -30s is kind of,

7:02

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

you can work for 24 hours,

7:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

7 days,

7:05

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

365 days.

7:07

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Yes, you can.

7:08

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well, we don't say we are the workaholic,

7:10

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but we are eager to do something.

7:13

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

We have a passion because it's younger age.

7:16

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I don't say the senior ages are not having that,

7:19

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but it's more kind of,

7:21

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well,

7:22

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

active.

7:23

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I believe.

7:24

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So you'd had some experience,

7:26

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

no doubt, in the bank,

7:27

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

maybe leading,

7:29

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

maybe, I don't know,

7:30

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

how...

7:31

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the hierarchy was like in the bank but probably you're did you get to catch a level

7:35

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

or something by the time you left or no still i'm just uh kind of

7:39

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the the young youngsters youngster even in your 30s although i'm

7:43

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

having uh some of the uh the person to working together with but

7:47

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

uh i'm not in the position of the kind of decision maker as a leader it's

7:52

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

more on the floor so in that sense your first real big leadership

7:56

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

role i guess is in oh yes uh and how many people were you leading

8:00

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

In Europe?

8:01

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well,

8:02

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

fortunately,

8:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I have to lead,

8:07

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

anyway, the Japanese business in Europe to get

8:11

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

many,

8:12

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

how do I say,

8:13

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

business for ours.

8:15

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

My colleagues are all,

8:18

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

from my...

8:21

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

position or my standpoint,

8:23

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

all foreigners,

8:24

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

they're Germans,

8:25

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

they're French,

8:26

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

have to work together with and then leading something and teach

8:30

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

them what the Japanese business are and what the Japanese companies are from

8:35

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

zero, from scratch.

8:36

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So that's a very tough moment because I don't know,

8:40

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

we don't have any kind of...

8:42

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

No manual?

8:42

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

No, nothing.

8:43

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

No book?

8:44

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

It's from zero start.

8:47

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I bring something,

8:48

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

some booklet and read how to manage the people,

8:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

how to encourage the people to work smoothly,

8:55

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

nicely,

8:56

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and gently together with me or with our colleagues in Japan to

9:00

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

communicate with.

9:01

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So communication is the very kind of key.

9:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Not making any order

9:09

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

or instruct something,

9:11

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but in the same eye level.

9:13

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And then...

9:15

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because I teach Japanese business,

9:18

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but I have to learn what the European business are.

9:21

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So it's vice versa,

9:22

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

kind of give and take.

9:23

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I give you this one,

9:26

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

so please give me your thoughts.

9:27

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Or please give me your experience or knowledge

9:32

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

to me.

9:32

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

That's interesting.

9:33

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So that's fair for them.

9:36

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Okay, if you're saying that,

9:38

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

that's good enough,

9:39

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and that's fair enough.

9:39

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because I don't like to be educated from you because I'm

9:44

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

younger than them.

9:47

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But probably in your age,

9:49

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

differentiation...

9:51

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

It is.

9:51

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Still important?

9:53

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Especially that age.

9:54

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well, I think it has changed,

9:56

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I believe,

9:58

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

now drastically.

10:00

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

In between 1990s,

10:01

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

because Germany was fully unified,

10:05

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and then China,

10:06

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

all over the world is becoming very much changed,

10:09

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

like 180 degrees.

10:11

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But before that,

10:12

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or just soon after I was in Europe,

10:16

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

still the,

10:17

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

not a hierarchy,

10:18

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but senior people are more respectful.

10:22

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

That's my kind of...

10:27

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My first impression.

10:28

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right, okay.

10:29

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So in terms of actually numbers of people you were leading,

10:33

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

how many people were responsible for?

10:35

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well,

10:36

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

to do business,

10:38

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

especially for searching and looking for the Japanese business in

10:42

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Germany, it's around,

10:43

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well,

10:44

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

20 people.

10:45

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

20 people,

10:46

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

right.

10:46

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But you had other countries as well at the beginning,

10:49

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

right? Yes,

10:50

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the same numbers in France,

10:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

of course,

10:52

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

in the Netherlands,

10:53

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in the UK,

10:54

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

all of the countries.

10:55

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Sounds like more than 100 people or something.

10:57

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Yeah, around 100 people.

10:58

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well, it's not kind of a full -time contribution to

11:03

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Japanese business.

11:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

We call it the international business.

11:06

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right.

11:06

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But before 1990s,

11:09

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

international business doesn't include Japanese business.

11:12

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because they're not eager to,

11:13

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

you know, develop the Japanese business by their own because

11:18

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

they don't know how.

11:18

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So that's why they need the Japanese expatriates to

11:22

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

look for.

11:23

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So,

11:24

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well,

11:26

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

although I'm saying 100 people all over in Europe,

11:29

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

that doesn't say I have to manage all of them.

11:32

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Partially.

11:33

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because there is another manager,

11:36

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

a senior.

11:39

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

who's managed the international department.

11:41

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right.

11:41

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So it's kind of a dual kind of reporting line.

11:44

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right.

11:44

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

One is for the international department manager and one,

11:48

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

if that is the Japanese business,

11:49

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

it's to me.

11:50

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So how was that?

11:52

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

You've come up through the Japanese system.

11:54

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

You've gone and done your MBA.

11:56

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

An MBA doesn't really prepare you for managing people

12:00

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

so specifically because it's an academic subject.

12:03

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right.

12:03

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So it's high level.

12:04

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Very high level.

12:05

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

You're right.

12:06

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Real terms,

12:07

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

they're there.

12:07

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

You're leading them.

12:09

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

What was challenging about leading foreigners as a Japanese businessman

12:13

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

at that time?

12:13

S… Speaker 4 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Oh,

12:14

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

it's a good question,

12:16

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

a tough question.

12:16

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well,

12:18

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

as you mentioned,

12:20

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Greg,

12:21

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

that I haven't learned exactly what

12:26

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

leadership is and how to lead or how to manage

12:30

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the people.

12:30

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So I learned,

12:33

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well,

12:34

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

it's...

12:35

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Easy to say that,

12:36

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but that is more on the job training basis.

12:40

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because my motto is not train them,

12:44

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

not educate them,

12:45

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but we go and work together with on

12:50

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the same eye level.

12:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because...

12:54

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I'm still mid -30s that age,

12:56

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and then I don't have any kind of power to manage the people

13:01

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

because more than that,

13:02

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I have to learn many things from them.

13:05

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then what is the kind

13:09

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

of turning point is we get some new business of

13:14

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the Japanese.

13:16

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then they start thinking that,

13:18

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

oh, this guy,

13:19

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Hiraga,

13:20

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

he's doing something to bring us a new business,

13:23

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

means revenue.

13:25

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And that is,

13:26

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

of course, good for them.

13:28

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Welcome, yeah.

13:29

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

For their raising their remuneration anyway.

13:32

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So that's starting kind of a trust

13:38

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and also respect.

13:42

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then what they say is,

13:43

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

okay, I follow your thoughts.

13:45

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I follow your strategy.

13:47

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I follow your kind of,

13:48

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well,

13:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

anyway,

13:52

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

some sales tokens,

13:55

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

whatever.

13:55

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Please teach me.

13:56

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I don't urge them,

13:59

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but they ask me to.

14:00

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Interesting.

14:01

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well, I don't say that's a leadership.

14:05

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

To say leader is something,

14:07

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but to lead,

14:08

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

leader is leading not the person,

14:10

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but leading the business together with the people.

14:13

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And how long were you in Europe for?

14:17

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

How long do they keep you in Europe?

14:18

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I had been in Europe for around

14:23

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

five years.

14:24

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Okay.

14:24

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But then I was supposed to be back to Japan.

14:27

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right.

14:28

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But the top management said,

14:32

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Okay, you had that good experience five years.

14:35

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Why don't you just come to our headquarters in the States,

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New York,

14:39

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and then doing the same kind of business

14:43

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

in the States?

14:44

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because there are plenty of business opportunities still in the

14:49

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States.

14:49

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So why don't you just come and then support your

14:54

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

colleagues?

14:54

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because I mentioned that they've been already around

14:58

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

10 Japanese already.

15:00

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

In the states,

15:03

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

from east to west,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

New York,

15:05

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Chicago,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Atlanta, San Francisco,

15:08

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Los Angeles,

15:10

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Nashville,

15:11

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Detroit,

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

many of the cities.

15:14

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Major cities where the Japanese businesses are.

15:17

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So I was stationing in New

15:21

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

York, and then...

15:23

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Again, the territory is not only New York State or Tri -State,

15:26

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but, you know,

15:27

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

East Coast.

15:27

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And West End is like Chicago.

15:30

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Southwest is,

15:32

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well, it's difficult,

15:33

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but Atlanta,

15:34

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Georgia, around that.

15:35

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But very,

15:38

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

very similar.

15:39

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So are you an independent operator coordinating

15:43

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

with your Japanese colleagues,

15:44

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

or are you actually running a team in the States?

15:46

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well, I don't run a team.

15:48

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

More to say,

15:49

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I'm kind of the...

15:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

one of the teammates of that team.

15:53

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because I have a senior boss who

15:57

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

is Japanese in New York.

15:59

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So my reporting line that time was to that person.

16:02

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then I have many colleagues,

16:05

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the Americans.

16:06

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

So they somehow reporting to me

16:10

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

their update of each

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

business or each account.

16:16

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Then after I...

16:20

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I kind of summarize everything,

16:21

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and then I report to the top boss.

16:23

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Right, okay.

16:23

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And so how long were you in the States this time?

16:26

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Another five years.

16:27

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Another five years,

16:28

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

okay. So in total, like 10 years,

16:29

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I was abroad.

16:29

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Wow, and then you came back to Japan?

16:31

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I was back to Japan in the year 2000.

16:34

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And what was the role they gave you when you came back to Japan?

16:37

S… Speaker 3 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Well,

16:37

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

my role is,

16:39

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well, sales activity is one thing,

16:41

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but I learned many new kind of,

16:45

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

not a technology,

16:46

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but some.

16:48

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

thoughts or some idea means risk management

16:52

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

is now,

16:53

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

it's many of the people knowing that.

16:55

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

But how to kind of identify

17:00

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the risks and

17:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

also

17:07

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

calculate how much that risk is.

17:09

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Kind of that methodology is quite new to be introduced from

17:14

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

the mid -90s.

17:15

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

And I learned during my stay in New York some

17:19

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kind of methodology and some other things.

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S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

I bring back that thought's methodology to Japan to

17:28

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

introduce and to let...

17:32

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

People know the importance of the risk management.

17:36

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Because risk management in Japan is not well organized

17:40

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

at that time.

17:41

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Risk avoidance is extremely well organized in Japan,

17:43

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

but risk management is not so well.

17:45

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Or more say it's more risk retention.

17:48

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

The bad thing is that,

17:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

well,

17:51

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

regarding this field,

17:53

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

risk...

17:54

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Mitigation or risk control,

17:56

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

that kind of word is not well known in

18:00

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Japan.

18:01

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

More to say risk avoidance,

18:03

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

as you mentioned,

18:04

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Greg,

18:05

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

that's one thing,

18:06

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

and risk retention.

18:07

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Risk retention is kind of risk,

18:09

S… Speaker 2 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

hide the risk.

18:11

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Ah,

18:11

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

okay.

18:12

S… Speaker 5 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Kind of.

18:13

S… Speaker 1 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Yeah, right.

18:14

S… Speaker 4 (YTSave_YouTube_141-Satoru-Hiraga-Director-and-Chairman-_Media_JK-AKReDufM_007_128k)

Under the table.

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