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Japan: Toyota's Kanban System, Applied to Humans

Categories: East Asia, Japan, Breaking News, Disaster, Ideas, Labor, Media & Journalism, Youth

A post by blogger boiledema [1] [ja], offering an alternative perspective on the background of Tomohiro Kato, offender in Sunday's Akiba massacre [2], has drawn a huge reaction, with over 1200 bookmarks [3] [ja] on Hatena. boiledema suggests that Toyota's system of Kanban production [4] is being applied to human beings, through unstable short-term employment, leading to extreme isolation. Tomohiro Kato worked as a temp employee at a factory under Toyota [5], although boiledema emphasizes that isolation cannot justify Kato's crime.