The morning sunshine through the fish market.
Thousands of seafood were labeled and they were ready for the auction.
Tuna Auction
As the picture showed, there was barely no women in the fish market, especially in the auction. One of reasons for this phenomenon was that auction required a lot of yells. Men were expected to be better qualified to the job as an auctioneer. Another reason is that an auctioneer is required to have many tests and get licensed from the government. Therefore, it was not easy to be an auctioneer.
After the visit of the fish market, we had the breakfast which was the freshest breakfast we have had ever.
After the breakfast, we were going to Mr. Higuchi's company KRT warehouse. One part of the visit was at the rejection section. In this section, many products are inspected to have some problems in packaging or surface so that they are rejected and stopped to enter the market. All of us were surprised how 'picky' Japanese people are. They will not consume products which may have some typos on the packaging. As Dr. Singer mentioned in the class, even though Japanese people are not complaining, they still won't accept or buy those products which have little or even unseen mistakes. They are 'complaining' silently. It makes me think of the directness of Japanese people. They are supposed to be indirect so that they will not complain directly. However, their indirectness also affects the business going on. Therefore, I think companies which want to have businesses in Japan should take particular attention on the reaction of the Japanese customers. Even though they might say nothing, their reactions also have impacts the same as the oral complains.
Then, we went to the tuna processing factory. It was amazing to see huge tunas and the processing steps during the factory visits. I have noticed that most parts of the processing are done by human beings. Like cutting the tuna in halves, it was kind of dangerous for human beings to cut the tuna because of the sharp slicer. The person who were cutting the tuna wearing protection gloves so that he was prevented to be hurt. However, I think it was still dangerous to people doing this and it will be better to use machines instead.
A worker was slicing the tuna.
During the visits, I noticed that manual workers are still important parts of the production. To some extent, it decreases the unemployment rate due to the huge needs of manual workers. Thus, I think this situation will still going on.
After the visit of the fish market, we had the breakfast which was the freshest breakfast we have had ever.
After the breakfast, we were going to Mr. Higuchi's company KRT warehouse. One part of the visit was at the rejection section. In this section, many products are inspected to have some problems in packaging or surface so that they are rejected and stopped to enter the market. All of us were surprised how 'picky' Japanese people are. They will not consume products which may have some typos on the packaging. As Dr. Singer mentioned in the class, even though Japanese people are not complaining, they still won't accept or buy those products which have little or even unseen mistakes. They are 'complaining' silently. It makes me think of the directness of Japanese people. They are supposed to be indirect so that they will not complain directly. However, their indirectness also affects the business going on. Therefore, I think companies which want to have businesses in Japan should take particular attention on the reaction of the Japanese customers. Even though they might say nothing, their reactions also have impacts the same as the oral complains.
Then, we went to the tuna processing factory. It was amazing to see huge tunas and the processing steps during the factory visits. I have noticed that most parts of the processing are done by human beings. Like cutting the tuna in halves, it was kind of dangerous for human beings to cut the tuna because of the sharp slicer. The person who were cutting the tuna wearing protection gloves so that he was prevented to be hurt. However, I think it was still dangerous to people doing this and it will be better to use machines instead.
During the visits, I noticed that manual workers are still important parts of the production. To some extent, it decreases the unemployment rate due to the huge needs of manual workers. Thus, I think this situation will still going on.
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