When I worked for Showa Boeki Co.,Ltd right
after finishing Bukkyo Univ. I was assigned to
work in The 3rd Operations(第3事業部).
This Operations had three departments(部):
*Food Business Department(食品部)
*Petrol & Oil Business Dept. (石油部)and
*Planning & Development Dept.(企画開発部)
I was assigned to work for P&D D(企画開発部) where
we were able to find new overseas products which were unknown
in Japanese market, develop a market for such products in Japan
and import to Japan & distribute them here in Japanese market.
I tried to make a market for new products which included
potpourris and other fancy goods(雑貨).
I found other new products from overseas markets and
imported to distribute them in Japanese market.
Many of my products were in the category of fancy goods.
So I often visited Tokyu Hands(東急ハンズ) in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Osaka
and Seibu Loft (西武ロフト)in Shibuya and Umeda(Osaka) to have
business negotiations on trial sales of new products, make a survey
on the sales of competitive products, etc.
(Probably my students in Kyushu may not know them well.)
Through this experience, I developed a good eye
for highly-marketable fancy goods(including accessories).
This day, I went to i-Town, a shopping building in Iizuka
to do some shopping. While I was shopping, I found a very nice
pair of pierces. They were blue-colored.
I bought them to gave to a certain person as a present.
This is a reward for the person who has taken my English course
regularly without laziness.
This is what I always do to those who show a good attitude
toward the Way of English.
This day I had a one-hour long English lesson with a college-student deshi.
We sang three jazz songs as practice of pronunciation, rythm and
intonation.
I streesed that POWER, SPEED and RYTHM are needed
for improving English.