Business & Work

アメリカで日本食レストランを身近にした男 －ロッキー青木－

橋本　裕美子

アメリカ人に知っている日本食レストランを挙げてもらうなら、「ベニハナ」と言う人も多いだろう。鉄板焼きレストラン「ベニハナ」は、都市部に住むアメリカ人の多くになじみのあるレストランだ。このレストランの創業者は、言わずと知れたロッキー青木氏。慶應義塾大学在学中にレスリングの日本代表としてアメリカ遠征後、ＮＹで屋台のアイスクリーム販売で成功したのをきっかけに、東京・日本橋で洋食店「紅花」を開いていた両親を説得、1964年にマンハッタンで始めたのが、鉄板焼きレストラン「ベニハナ・オブ・トーキョー」である。オリエンタル調のミステリアスな店内インテリア、大きな鉄板を囲んだ客が、ナイフとコテを器用に操るシェフに目の前でサービスしてもらうというスタイルは、パフォーマンス好きのアメリカ人にエンターテイメント型ダイニングとして受けた。「ベニハナ」は、現在90店舗以上（フランチャイズ含む）、南カリフォルニアだけでも10店舗あるという（※１）。

Nurturing a Family Business: The Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursery


It is mid-March in California’s Central Valley, and Richard Yamaguchi is very busy. One thousand black pine trees need to be trimmed and shaped; several must be carefully dug out and moved for landscapers in need of this familiar and iconic variety of Japanese conifer. Only two weeks remain before the trees come out of their seasonal dormancy, after which they cannot be trimmed or moved until next November, when all the remaining trees—some of which have taken 50 years to mature—will be dug up and sold to a major landscaping project in Texas.

Reflections of a Gardener’s Son
By Yosh Kuromiya

My Dad was working as a gardener when I was born. Then, when I was in first grade, he dropped his gardening work to establish a fruit-stand business, which was just starting to do well when Pearl Harbor was attacked. We lost everything when they sent us to Heart Mountain. After the war he went back into gardening because it was cheaper to buy a lawn mower and pick up a few jobs than to invest in another business. I reluctantly joined my dad and worked as his helper for a while. We argued, because he had that work ethic of slaving away for peanuts, while I would think, “They threw us in the camps, and now they expect us to mow their lawns?”

Desenvolvimento econômico e estruturas empresariais: aprendendo com o Japão e seus vizinhos
Por Alexandre Ratsuo Uehara


No mês de maio, em Brasília, foi feito o lançamento o livro Negócios com Japão, Coréia do Sul e China escrito por Gilmar Masiero, professor de administração da Universidade de Brasilia (UNB). O livro, que aborda os temas do desenvolvimento econômico, aspectos administrativos e empresariais e as relações diplomáticas e comerciais com o Brasil, faz uma importante contribuição para apresentação das três mais importantes economias asiáticas da atualidade. Segundo o comentário da professora Eliana Cardoso, professora titular da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV): “Se você procurava uma introdução ao Japão, China e Coréia do Sul, encontrou o livro certo. Masiero discorre sobre a história e a sociedade desses países e descreve as estruturas empresariais peculiares a cada um deles: os grandes grupos japoneses (Keiretsus), os chaebols coreanos e as TVEs chinesas. As relações econômicas com o Brasil também estão presentes.”

Cátedra Japón de la UAJFK

La V. Jornada de Management Japonés, junio 2006

El Señor Kimihiko Inaba, Director General de JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) en Buenos Aires, participó en la V. Jornada de "Management Japonés: Casos de aplicación en organizaciones argentinas" en la Universidad John F. Kennedy el 1 de junio de 2006.

Pronunció un discurso sobre el desarrollo de la relaciones bilaterales, y específicamente de las relaciones entre Japón y Argentina.
Inaba afirmó, "Los empresarios argentinos dicen que el mercado japonés es muy exigente, y es muy dificíl de desarrollar. Pero en realidad, el Japón