please mind the gap #17 w/marimoriko - accompanied by sony 22.01.2019

Marking the beginning of a new direction, we begin the year by looking at the
company and their societal status in post-war Japan to the present. The word for
society in Japanese is, sha kai. The word for the company is, kai sha. Kai sha
is meant to have been coined in the Edo period, between the seventeenth and 19th
centuries, and the word for society, later in the meiji period. They are
inverted versions of the same word, and were even used in the same context until
translations for what we call society and company were needed. Although there
are no concrete explanations for the use of these symbols or ties between the
concepts, the fact that they are made up of the same symbols must indicate a
kinship.


However, there is no doubt that the company plays a large role, or even too
large a role in japanese society, even today, when karoshi, a word meaning death
by work which has even ent...

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