Samuel Hideo Yamashita Boeken

The collection features diaries from eight ordinary Japanese individuals, offering an intimate glimpse into the personal impacts of the Pacific War. Readers encounter diverse perspectives, including a kamikaze pilot, a Tokyo housewife, and schoolchildren evacuated to the countryside. These accounts reveal the stark realities and emotional struggles faced during the war and its aftermath. Samuel Yamashita's introduction enriches the narrative by contextualizing these experiences within the broader historiography of wartime Japan, highlighting everyday concerns during a tumultuous era.

Published in 1998. Rapidly advancing information technology plays an important role in the formation of new corporate organizations. Some people say, in fact, that the Internet itself may well suggest a future corporate organization. Under these circumstances, how is the corporate culture, which is integral to the organization, to be duly taken? What is an appropriate culture to the would-be future business organization, which will necessarily be all the more supported and strengthened by information technology? In the author's view, the cultures fit in well with the structure of enterprise competitiveness can readily evolve into the 21st century organization. Such a culture would, with no difficulty, find an arena of its own in the future organization and eventually become integral to the company.