Perfecting skills for the Japanese job market

[Taro Toporific]

University Festival promotes synchronized walking in Japan
CBS News | Nov 15, 2013
--- You've heard of synchronized swimming; now in Japan, there's synchronized precision walking....students at Nippon Sports Science University have taken walking to a whole new level drawing in 11,000 people at their university festivities this year on Thursday (November 14)...
...at 3 days per week - of exercises to get them in shape for the dazzling performances. Their practice forced them to walking up to 1,200 kilometers (720 miles) in total - roughly the distance from Paris to Rome.
The captain of the team...23-year-old Keiko Suzuki said...
"We all mastered this highly disciplined training and made it our habit to stick to strict rules. I believe this experience will be an asset as we enter into the job market"...
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[Coligny]

"We all mastered this highly disciplined training and made it our habit to stick to strict rules. I believe this experience will be an asset as we enter into the job market"...
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That's DPRK level of stupid here...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

That's DPRK level of stupid here...

Where do you think the DPRK got all that shit from in the first place? It wasn't just through eating dogs and grass dumplings.

[Russell]

If they look for a job in the military, their skill is probably conceived as an asset...

[Coligny]

If they look for a job in the military, their skill is probably conceived as an asset...

Not past 18th century startregies, or DPRK parades...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I believe this experience will be an asset as we enter into the job market"

That reminds of something I was watching on TV before work the other day. There's a private boarding junior high and high school in Japan supposedly designed to produce future business leaders. The kids live in tiny single rooms and aren't allowed to have smartphones, watch TV, play video games, or read anything but texts books and other class material. Basically it seems they're living a totally sheltered militaristic lifestyle. Other than the classeds being taught by people from corporations rather than school teachers (by the way the corporate teachers were all miserable young salarymen from major companies who looked they they were given that shit post as part of their job rotation) I couldn't see for the life of me how they were being prepped for leadership. Excellent training for being a shinsotsu drone hire but that's about it,

[Yokohammer]

It seems that leadership in Japan can only be inherited. Never taught.

[legion]

I guess it's better than walking aimlessly along the station platform looking at a stupidphone

[Coligny]

I guess it's better than walking aimlessly along the station platform looking at a stupidphone

Also called... Waiting for the train... Back in my days people could only read newspaper or pick their nose, both ways, and we liked it.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

It seems that leadership in Japan can only be inherited. Never taught.

Isn't that the same everywhere?

[Samurai_Jerk]

It seems that leadership in Japan can only be inherited. Never taught.

Isn't that the same everywhere?

Are you telling me the American dream is a bunch of propaganda?

[Yokohammer]

It seems that leadership in Japan can only be inherited. Never taught.

Isn't that the same everywhere?

Similar situations exist everywhere, but the focus on lineage and lack of training in leadership skills here seem to be ... er ... above average?

~ Tapatalking ~

[kurogane]

It seems that leadership in Japan can only be inherited. Never taught.

Isn't that the same everywhere?

Similar situations exist everywhere, but the focus on lineage and lack of training in leadership skills here seem to be ... er ... above average?

That is broadly true. Rather illuminating of some of the very deep similarities between American, UK, and Japanese societies, really, especially to First World observers. Mind you, entrance to a top Japanese university is still feasible for even the poorest elements of Japanese society, which does point to a greater emphasis on meritocracy as compared to more hierarchical and tradition bound places like the US and the UK.

Not to mention that leadership training is a fabricated need pushed by the assembled shillage of the management consultancy shibboleth and their downmarket talk show vulgarisers.

So, BOT: can we all agree that such a skill set will actually be well regarded by recruiters and personnel departments, sad as that fact is?

[Russell]

It seems that leadership in Japan can only be inherited. Never taught.

Isn't that the same everywhere?

Are you telling me the American dream is a bunch of propaganda?

Yes.

It may have been true in the past, but it certainly is no more.