Fujiko Suda: Worklife

New combination of “ba” in Japan

Oct 13, 2003 19:58 pm / 2 comments

Here’s some­thing excit­ing I want to share.

We are in midst of cre­at­ing an excit­ing com­bi­na­tion of “ba” among cre­ative peo­ple in Japan.

1. Blog con­nect­ing to each other. More and more peo­ple who want to share their thoughts, feel­ings, opin­ions are open­ing up blog sites, and the explo­sion hasn’t hap­pened yet. These peo­ple are cre­at­ing the kind of momen­tum that could give birth to new iden­tity of Japan. I am in the mid­dle of the move­ment, and it feels exciting.

2. When thoughts are strong, way opens. It might very well be seren­de­pity. Espe­cially in Tokyo, one might have read someone’s inter­est­ing blog, and later, in some social gath­er­ing, con­nec­tion hap­pens. It’s never totally out of blue, since one would attend seminar/social gath­er­ing being invited by blog related friends. What­ever, it is, com­bi­na­tion of blog and seminar/social gath­er­ing is speed­ing up the con­nec­tion of peo­ple with like minds.

3. The stock prices are down, most of old giant Japan­ese com­pa­nies are shakier than ever. But this mis­er­able sit­u­a­tion is giv­ing birth to few per­cent­age of peo­ple who are inno­v­a­tive, deter­mined, and hard work­ing. These peo­ple from var­i­ous busi­ness sec­tors will become the core of Japan in the near future. Out of chaos, new order is being cre­ated. New order of younger generation.

4. As for phys­i­cal “ba” is con­cerned, it is usu­ally very casual. Tokyo is full of cafes that has great envi­ron­ment to talk. (Cafe called the Office, SUS, Chanoma, to name just a few)

5. It is becom­ing easy to be a part of any loose com­mu­nity, and “ba” is com­bi­na­tion of intense vir­tual com­mu­ni­ca­tions (blog, e-mails, chats) with lim­ited tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion, anchored with core peri­od­i­cal phys­i­cal meetings.

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