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The Terminal Kyoto is a café and art gallery located in Kyoto. Housed in a traditional Kyoto machiya townhouse, it preserves the architectural charm of old Kyoto, allowing visitors to experience the beauty and elegance of classical Japanese design. The interior also retains the machiya aesthetic, featuring tatami seating and large floor-to-ceiling... See more
instagram.com“The role of top management is to give employees a sense of crisis as well as a lofty ideal” (Nonaka, 1985, p. 142). This intentional chaos, which is referred to as “creative chaos,” increases tension within the organization and focuses the attention of organizational members on defining the problem and resolving the crisis situation.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Deconstruction posited that all texts are unstable and irreducibly complex and that ever variable meanings are imputed by readers and observers.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
The Beauty Of Anime Backgrounds
youtube.comHow happy to see lightning and not think, “Time is fleeting!” —BASHO
Pico Iyer • Autumn Light
When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.
This is what is so terrifying about competition. Even if you’re not a loser, even if you’re someone who keeps on winning, if you are someone who has placed himself in competition, you will never have a moment’s peace. You don’t want to be a loser. And you always have to keep on winning if you don’t want to be a loser. You can’t trust other people.
... See moreIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
When the editors of Animage encouraged me to create a manga, I got all excited and, as fate would have it, decided to create my own version of Nausicaä. I am now forced to reflect yet again on why, years ago, I once gave up drawing manga because I felt I lacked talent. At this point, I hope that I can somehow bring this young heroine into a world
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