Author: Masaaki Sato
Publisher: Vertical
Keywords: guide, executive, leaders, toyota
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-12-16
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1934287237
ISBN-13: 9781934287231

Six decades ago, Toyota was an embarrassment. Today, they are the auto- industry leader. The Toyota Leaders: An Executive Guide tells how they did it, and in such a way that allows readers to apply the lessons. Discover how Toyota is more than just a series of good business moves, but a culture first put into place by its founders and built on through the years. Not a corporate history, Sato uses Toyota’s past to contextualize his discussion as he focuses on the company’s unique business strategies. - Find out why an innovative vehicle like the hybrid Prius came from Toyota and not

Author: Masaaki Ono
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: kyoto, gardens, hidden
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-08-09
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 4770029373
ISBN-13: 9784770029379

Off the beaten track, not easily seen because in private or official hands, these are the "hidden gardens" of one of the world’s great historic cities. All the main types of Japanese garden are represented. First comes the pond garden, which on the grandest scale can be a match for the lake-wood-and-meadow parks of Western estates, and on a more modest scale still contains islands and bridges and pavilions. Then there is the dry landscape garden, whose gravel, rocks, and moss have an austerity remote from most Westerners’ idea of a garden, yet whose purpose, once understood, leaves an i

Author: Masaaki Imai
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: approach, management, cost, low, kaizen, commonsense, gemba
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0070314462
ISBN-13: 9780070314467

When it comes to making your business more profitable and successful, don’t look to re-engineering for answers. A better way is to apply the concept of kaizen, which mean making simple, common-sense improvements and refinements to critical business processes.The result: greater productivity, quality, and profits achieved with minimal cost, time, and effort invested. In this book, you discover how to maximize the results of kaizen by applying it to gemba--business processes involved in the manufacture of products and the rendering of services--the areas of your business where, as the auth

Author: Masaaki Hatsumi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: ninjutsu, essence
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1988-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0809247240
ISBN-13: 9780809247240

Looking back almost 1,000 years, the mists of Japan’s chaotic past shroud the development of a way of life, an ancient struggle waged against fierce feudal lords who ruled the island nation with swords of steel and a code of death before dishonor. The people of the mountainous regions of what is now Iga prefecture wanted to live in peace, but their lords had other plans-so the people learned the martial arts of self-defense and used their meager farm tools as weapons against the samurai blades of their oppressors. Nine traditions of the ninja arts grew out of this seemingly endless strug

Author: Masaaki Kijima
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: modeling, stochastic, series, processes, markov
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0412606607
ISBN-13: 9780412606601

This book presents an algebraic development of the theory of countable state space Markov chains with discrete and continuous time parameters.

Author: Masaaki Hatsumi
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: techniques, secret, ninja, way
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-09-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 4770028059
ISBN-13: 9784770028051

A Ninja was someone whose very existence expressed the spirit of Budo. He would protect himself with techniques not of assassination but rather of sensation and an acute awareness of his natural surroundings. He would avoid unnecessary conflict, and even if armed with a blade, would find a way to win without staining it. These are the true techniques of Ninjutsu, and the art in which Ninja persistently trained. Ninja exercised endurance throughout their secretive lives in order to protect their families, their clans, and their country. Their harsh training endowed them with a tough but plia

Author: Masaaki Kijima
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: finance, applications, processes, stochastic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-07-29
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1584882247
ISBN-13: 9781584882244

In recent years, modeling financial uncertainty using stochastic processes has become increasingly important, but it is commonly perceived as requiring a deep mathematical background. Stochastic Processes with Applications to Finance shows that this is not necessarily so. It presents the theory of discrete stochastic processes and their applications in finance in an accessible treatment that strikes a balance between the abstract and the practical.Using an approach that views sophisticated stochastic calculus as based on a simple class of discrete processes-"random walks"-the author first prov