A Christmas and New Year's card for Papa-san from Yaeko Ishikawa. A letter addressed to Papa-san from Ishikawa is included in the card. In the letter, Ishikawa thanks him for the Christmas present and says that she is presenting him with a little...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. Inoue, saying that he understands that a package of his articles did not arrive and says that "The Nature of American Management" possibly gives more details than the others. Mr. Inoue probably refers to Bunzaemon Inoue. ...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Authorship; Associations, institutions, etc.; Japan; Health; Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900-1993; Management; Quality control; Nakane, Chie, 1926-; Juran, J. M. (Joseph M.),...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that he is sending a few more questions for his article. Hopper asks Inoue to comment on questions regarding the CCS (Civil Communications Section) and leadership. ...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Business enterprises; Executives; Historians; Lectures and lecturing; Japan; Banks and banking; Quality circles; Quality control
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that American companies are using historians to record the stories of individual executives. He asks Inoue about his 500 lectures and if they were about the CCS (Civil...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Industries; Labor productivity; Quality control; Quality circles; Executives; Authorship; Books; Songs; Music; Sumitomo Group
In an English translation of B. Inoue's letter to Mr. Hopper, dated 1981 August 21, Inoue refers to a piece in Peter Drucker's work, "The Practice of Management" that says that productivity greatly increases when workers are given responsibility...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Health; Authorship; Books; Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900-1993; Ōmae, Ken'ichi, 1943-; McKinsey and Company; Management; Wall Street journal
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., thanking him for his letters. He says that the opportunity to write a chapter with Dr. Deming is a very good way to present his and Inoue's information. Hopper shares that...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that he was saddened to learn about Mr. Kato's death. Hopper shares that after an introduction by Dr. Drucker, he learned that Mr. Kato had served an apprenticeship...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. Hajime Nashiwa, of Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., saying that it was with regret that he learned that he and his wife should have visited Nashiwa last September on the day of their visit to Wakayama Steel. Hopper says...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Hopper, W. J. (William Joseph), 1929-; Production management; Asian Productivity Organization; Nihon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha; Management
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that Hopper had a visit from his brother who is chief spokesman on economic matters for the British government in the European Parliament. Hopper reports that it looks...
Kenneth Hopper writes Dr. Eng. Y. Aketa, managing director of Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., saying that he is grateful for the work that Aketa's management team put into a report he was given. He says that in the enclosed Japan Times articles,...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Japan times; Newspapers; Authorship; Books; Japan; Health
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that he is convinced that the CCS (Civil Communications Section) seminars were very important and that the oil countries and developing nations could learn a great deal...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Japan; Travel; Sumitomo Group; Lectures and lecturing; Authorship; Management; Sumitomo Denki Kōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha; Sumitomo Gomu Kōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha; University of Michigan;...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that he visited Mr. S. Nagasaki and showed him his album of Japan. Hopper says he has given two lectures on his visit to Japan and that he may be able to publish one...
A draft of Kenneth Hopper's letter to Mr. Isamu Sakamoto, chairman of the board of Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., discussing Mr. Inoue's contributions to Japanese industrial management. Hopper asks Sakamoto if he could summarize Inoue's...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Management; Business enterprises; Hindle, Brooke; Authorship; University of Michigan; Kondō, Y. (Yoshio), 1924-; Asian Productivity Organization; Library of Congress; Quality control;...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that he was very aided by Inoue's suggestion that Hopper not try to compare the contributions of individuals to the new Japanese management. Hopper shares that Dr....
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. Bunzaemon Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that Mr. J. Noguchi, the general manager of the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, tells him that he contacted the jury of the Deming Prize. Hopper...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. Bunzaemon Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., thanking him for the introduction to Professor Koichi Ohba. Hopper says Mr. J. Noguchi of the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers has just sent him the enclosed...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Nikkei bijinesu; Authorship; Japan times; Newspapers; Industries; Health
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. Inoue about his return from Japan and his Nikkei Business article and Japan Times article. Hopper says that the Japan Times article starts with a reference to the CCS (Civil Communications Section) seminars. Mr. Inoue...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Quality circles; Quality control; Management; University of Michigan; Periodicals
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., thanking him for looking further into the records of early QC Circles in SEI (Sumitomo Electric Industries) and asks what proportion of workers took part in them in 1962 and...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. H. Nashiwa, of Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., thanking him for his letter. Hopper says he visited factories, head offices, associations, a management training center, a research department, and a government department...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that a year ago today, he was taken to a Japanese shrine by Mr. Tokazawa. Hopper says he sends, separately, a short tape of folk songs by Ronald Duncan.
