Our Studio Ghibli Week
Jul. 4th, 2011 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckSince AG33 left for CT, Husband has changed to Barbarian-gear, and we have seen Kiki's Delivery Service, Ponyo, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle in the last week. Oh, and Nausicaa. And we rewatched My Neighbor Totoro. Sadly, I went and did some grocery errands and missed about half of Howl's. That said, I think of the group, Spirited Away was my favorite, though Totoro is really a beautiful movie. Kiki was just The Barbarian's speed. She says she has three favorites now - Kiki, Nausicaa, and Howl's Moving Castle. Ponyo had some amazing art in it, but was mostly a non-sensical fluff piece. In sort of a good, little-kids-would-like-that kind of way, but still. For some reason I couldn't get into Nausicaa. But I also missed about half of that running for pizza, so I may not have given her a fair shake.
I think my favorite character so far is No Face, and I really liked the whole thing with the Stink Spirit.
In other, vaguely-related-because-it-has-to-do-with-Japan news, I was listening to Freakonomics last night. They were doing an hour talking about family-owned businesses and how they decline when management is handed down to the next generation. Except that in Japan this is not the case. In Japan, the next generation performs just fine. Why is this? Because in Japan, if you are the CEO of a successful corporation, you just go out, find a really bright (apparently always MALE) candidate, and ADOPT HIM. No kidding, apparently in America and Japan, adoption rates are similar and high, but in America, where we adopt babies, in Japan they adopt men age 25-30.
I was amused that the researcher said it was a lot like a marriage. You go down to the courthouse (or town hall, I can't remember exactly which he said), fill out the paperwork. The adoptee must change his name to the new family's name.
When the question was raised, "What do the birth families think of this?" The answer was, of course they are honored! If your son is adopted into the Suzuki clan or the Toyota clan to be THE CEO?! That is AWESOME! Suzuki adopted their CEO 70 years ago, and Toyota's current CEO is an adoptee.
I think my favorite character so far is No Face, and I really liked the whole thing with the Stink Spirit.
In other, vaguely-related-because-it-has-to-do-with-Japan news, I was listening to Freakonomics last night. They were doing an hour talking about family-owned businesses and how they decline when management is handed down to the next generation. Except that in Japan this is not the case. In Japan, the next generation performs just fine. Why is this? Because in Japan, if you are the CEO of a successful corporation, you just go out, find a really bright (apparently always MALE) candidate, and ADOPT HIM. No kidding, apparently in America and Japan, adoption rates are similar and high, but in America, where we adopt babies, in Japan they adopt men age 25-30.
I was amused that the researcher said it was a lot like a marriage. You go down to the courthouse (or town hall, I can't remember exactly which he said), fill out the paperwork. The adoptee must change his name to the new family's name.
When the question was raised, "What do the birth families think of this?" The answer was, of course they are honored! If your son is adopted into the Suzuki clan or the Toyota clan to be THE CEO?! That is AWESOME! Suzuki adopted their CEO 70 years ago, and Toyota's current CEO is an adoptee.
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Date: 2011-07-05 05:19 pm (UTC)I love that fact about Japanses businesses, that's brilliant!