Odd headline/story from the Daily Mail
October 14, 2007
By Ken Worsley
This is just confusing. I’m not sure if it’s symptomatic of the UK press, or if it makes any sense at all to anyone: One million tax forms ‘unopened’ as inspectors are taught Japanese gobbledegook
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The Daily Mail were the Newspaper whose editor wrote letters in support of Nazism. They are a right-wing blight on humanity and certainly not representative of the British press. I’m amazed this is considered journalism anywhere.
The chances are the pamphlet in question didn’t add up to much other than an a lunchtime browse, but any chance for the Mail to attack something from outside Britain is fair game it seems.
The fact that anyone would think learning terms used in Japan decades ago would even be a significant factor in increasing efficiency and improving customer service is just plain daft
You know what increases efficiency? Working.
Toyota may have efficiency down pat, but one only has to spend a couple of hours in a Tokyo office environment to ralize that Japanese words alone do not efficiency make.
With It and manufacturing included, Japan’s productivity is about the same as US rates. Services and office jobs, on the other hand, are about 60% of US rates.