Japan inc: lessons for North America?

Canada, 1980

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Organization, discipline and productivity in Japan are on a scale not known in any other country of the world. For the 110 million people of Japan, survival means doing things together—a concept that has seen that nation automate and computerize at an unparalleled rate. Just how this level of achievement was reached is the subject of this absorbing documentary study of Japanese business and industry.

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Credits

director

Kalle Lasn

co-producer

John Coney

John Taylor

Kalle Lasn

Peter Jones

production company

ONF | NFB

Duration

00:28:00:00

Production places
Canada
Production dates
1980

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

316272

Language

English

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q120495655

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