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I just moved my English blog to TypePad at http://nob.typepad.com/english/. TypePad looks good and couldn't wait exploring TypePad more!

Previous entries have been successfully transferred. Good job, Ben and Mena.

I've got the source of the research, which I mentioned in the previous etnry. The research was reported in Japanese but I created its summary here.

Survey: Attitude to jobs and workplace of FY2003 Regular new-hired employees

The survey was done by those who attened the job training course Sanno Institute of Management offered in March and April in 2003. 462 out of 600 attendees answered the survey.

Summary: 2003 new hired seem to have decreased aspiration of challenging, due to the long recession of Japanese economy with little hope. These new hired prefer staying at large firms rather than starting ventures so that they want to acquire skills valid at large firms. Majority of these new-hired want to end up becoming directors at large firms, showing they long for stabilization of life. They look very conservative.

A couple days ago, I read an article in newspaper saying that those who graduated from colleges and started working last year were the most conservative in terms of their career. I don't remember exactly when the newspaper reported but at least Nikkei Newspaper covered this in this week.

According to the article, these people expect the most to maintain the life-time employment system this year among the past several years. These young people are very worried to be losing their job.

There is another article, reported a couple of weeks ago, saying that more young workers would choose to work overtime rather than go out for dating if their boss tells them to do something even after five. Not so many Middle age people, like 30s, wouldn't work overtime as these young people do.

Japan (and its economy) really needs more entrepreneurs, but young people may not be the source for that requirement. So, who is gonna be? Foreigners?

I ended up writing a bit about myself when I got my TypePad beta site available.

I think I will add some more at times.

I just bought au's A5401CA cell phone with digicam. The good thing is that it can attach location info to photos via au's GPS functionality. Cool.

Here is a moblogged pic taken at Shibuya, Tokyo, with location info. The cell phone automatically attaches the map info, but there is a finding re: the location info. Given the geographic position such as longitude, the location is displayed at different points depending on maps. Here are samples.