HIDA Journal 2014 AUTUMN No.5

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17No. 5 AUTUMN 2014Chief of the business magazine Bplatz Press, to serve as the lecturer team. In addition, we also created opportunities on a number of occasions to hear from the managers of long-standing businesses that have persisted for more than 400 years, while producing content for it that capitalized on the regional characteristics of Kansai (Western part of Japan), in which there are many long-standing FB companies.Among the participants were three pairs of managers and the sons that will succeed them taking part. Most of the other participants were also people who will take over their family businesses in the near future and who appear to be facing their own problems with respect to the succession of their businesses. The lectures introduced not only successful case examples, but also quite a few examples that ended in failure. The course offered practical content to the participants, with post-lecture question and answer sessions stretching out for nearly an hour after each session. For some of the participants even this was not enough, and they could be seen asking the lecturers questions individually after these had ended.During the company visits, they heard from the next presidents of Chidoriya Souke co., ltd. (founded in Osaka Prefecture in 1630) and Sawanotsuru Co., Ltd. (founded in Hyogo Prefecture in 1717), as well as the current presidents of Yamaoka Industrial Co., Ltd (Osaka Prefecture) and Nishiyama Ryokan (Japanese style inn) (Kyoto City). Through these they listened humbly to the philosophies that have been passed down in unbroken succession in each of the companies over the generations. The participants seemed surprised and deeply impressed to see all of the managers proclaim as if with a single voice statements like, “Companies must contribute to society,” “We emphasize how we will continue to hand our company down to future generations,” and “Companies are a blessing and must not be misappropriated for one’s own purposes.”HIDA plans and implements seminars suited to the needs of companies and organizations in Japan and overseas with a diverse line-up that includes made-to-order courses like this seminar out of our desire to respond to the demands of internationalization that are coming from all directions.*According to research by a variety of media outlets (Teikoku Databank, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, etc.), Japanese companies are said to make up roughly half of the long-standing companies that have been around more than 200 years since being founded. The majority of these are family businesses, except for only a few exceptions.Participants receiving an explanation on the cooking table at Yamaoka Industrial Co., Ltd.HIDA Seminar on Family Business Management for Thailand LecturerInterview with Ms. Chie Yamano, Chief Producer for the Osaka Urban Industry Promotion Center“Learning from Japan’s Family Businesses”Ms. Chie Yamano, who was introduced above as serving as the lecturer for the HIDA Seminar on Family Business Management for Thailand , is involved in supporting SMEs as the Chief Producer for the Osaka Urban Industry Promotion Center, which is a support center for SMEs and venture companies by the Osaka City Government Economic Strategy Bureau. In addition, as the Editor in Chief of Bplatz Press, a business information magazine, she introduces many of the managers and SMEs that are playing an active role in Kansai. She acts so as to raise people’s awareness and interest by focusing in on the successors who will inherit family businesses (hereafter referred to as FBs), which have not received all that much attention to date, as well as young people working at production sites in the manufacturing industry. She is someone with ideas and the ability to convey them, as evidenced by the fact that she organizes special features like Successor Seminars and Youths at Worksites that gather together students who are ambivalent about carrying on their family businesses to get them to think about what their life will be like if they carry on with the family business together with actively serving presidents. She also carries out initiatives in order to halt the detachment of young people from worksites in the manufacturing industry at SMEs.We recently spoke with Ms. Yamano about the characteristics and potential of FBs, as well as the participation of women at such businesses and the advances into overseas markets by SMEs.Ms.Yamano, Chief Producer, the Osaka Urban Industry Promotion Center

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