Inside Tokyo University of Arts, there is the oldest brick building in Tokyo. The President of the Tokyo University of Arts, kindly arranged for magazine interview with Akimoto at this historical site. The interview for the magazine “President” features friendship between president (Akimoto) and celebrities. When…
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Giant size pieces of wood beautifully carved by Daiku carpenters long long time ago, would otherwise have been scrapped to build a new prefabricated houses. The “bones” collected from various old houses in northern part of Japan are the collection of one of our clients. The client requests…
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The house of the Daiku, made by the Daiku, for the Daiku carpenter. Amply using wood carved by Daiku carpenters, this house is almost a wooden puzzle. Why state of the art technology is used to build this house? Because the owner of this house is…
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Although the origin of this gate is not known, “Torii 鳥居” gate stands at the entrance of all temples and shrines in Japan. Why? It serves as a barrier and a border between material world, and holy sanctuary. Seeing is believing, and believing is seeing….
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb Reading the article by Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS on Harvard Business Review, above quote struck my head. Why? Because it is exactly how Akimoto started the company….
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The author of the best-seller ”The Most Treasured Company in Japan”（日本でいちばん大切にしたい会社） visited our company to exchange views with Akimoto. The book was first published 8 years ago, and volume 5 was released last month. Accumulating to over 670,000 copies, Professor Sakamoto of Hosei University is a celebrity and a…
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Walking through giant gates at major shrines and temples is like walking through art museum. Look up and check this: Blue Dragon protecting East. Red Phoenix protecting South. Black Gamera Turtle & Snake protecting North. White Tiger protecting West. They are the four guardians…
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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” (Revelation 22:13) Amazing we have the same saying in Japanese (Buddhism)! They say the first word in Japanese alphabet あ and the last ん can describe ALL words, sentences,…
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Formerly, carpenters of Japanese architecture can 1. do sales 2. Design architecture 3. Manage construction process 4. Craft wood 5. Educate apprentice Today, however, carpenters lost all the status, because they 1. are just a subcontractor, and Architect does all the design 2. no longer craft woods 3. are…
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In “Lean In”, Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook COO and one of “Fortune” magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business – looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. Learning to ‘lean in’…
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