2014年5月19日星期一

Osaka Tour 5/16

   Osaka is the second largest city in Japan. We visited Primix company, Ramen Noodle Factory and Osaka Orix Buffaloes Baseball Game during the tour on Osaka.
   Primix is a company owned by Mr. Furuichi, who also owned Feast International.During the visit to Primix, I felt how profound the company culture was. The company has a catchy company song. And every staff has a small brochure which is required to bring it anytime. The brochure contained the value, goals and ideas promoted by the company. Unlike other traditional Japanese companies, the atmosphere in Primix was more democratic. Every staff can share his idea to each other. They must still respect the authority, but at the same time, they are open-minded. I think one of the reasons for Primix being different from other Japanese companies is that Mr. Furuichi has an experience in western culture. He perfectly combined the eastern and the western culture and formed a unique culture in his company. From the conversation to Chinese young workers, I knew that they would be trained in Japan for 3 years and then be sent back to China factory. I saw the long-term plan for the Primix and the company kept pursuing its goals under the open leading by Mr. Furuichi. The most impressive thing to me was that the message 'We recieve our salary from our customers. Thank you customers' was listed on the paycheck to employees. I was surprised how important the customer was to Primix and how the company showed its appreciation to the customer.
   Another thing I noticed was that during the lunch, not like the lunch at Mr. Higuchi's company,other two accompanying staffs were having the lunch with us. From this detail, I think it showed the difference between the two companies obviously.
   Our next stop was a ramen noddle factory, which is actually the instant ramen museum. We saw variant noddles was created and we also made our own instant cup noddles.
My personal cup noddles.
Then, we went to see a baseball game. It was pity that I was not familiar with baseball. So the game seemed boring to me. But anyway, it was my first time to see a baseball game and I was glad that I had the chance to experience it.

The baseball game

When visiting a shopping street before the baseball game, I saw a lot of Chinese visitors were there. Many people were in a household appliances store to buy the electric cookers. Many Chinese people think products from foreign countries are better than domestic products. So every time they travel to other countries, they will buy bunches of products from those countries. Even though 'Made in China' is known to all, Chinese people seemed not to trust in it. It was kind of ironic to see the scene that many Chinese were buying bunches of products which were actually made in China at different countries. I think Chinese people should build the confidence of having domestic products. And Chinese companies have to make qualified products to make the customers convinced. Japanese companies paid more attention on the quality of the products so that it attracts more customers to consume their products, even the customer from other countries.

The shopping street

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