Research proposal
There was the opportunity for me to be asked that ‘who is the best Japanese leader in the history?’. I could not answer that immediately, because I had never thought about ‘the best Japanese leader in history’ until then. Now I took Lessons in ‘Leadership and The Dynamic you’. In that class, we are reading ‘Leading at the edge’, and studying about Shackleton. He showed his leadership and made difference in crisis. When I read this book about Shackleton, I associated him with One Japanese Prime minister: Shigeru Yoshida. He also tried to deal with the so many problems in the crisis, after the Pacific War. He called the time ‘’climactic’’. He was on the similar situations to Shackleton. However, Shackleton’ leadership is typical one: The action of leading a group of people or an organization, or the ability to do this. (Oxford,dictionary) For example, Shackleton tried to do something in order to make his colleagues follow: clear vision and explain about it and use right words. On the other hand, Yoshida sometimes sticked to his own idea and his idea was not clear, that was criticised by media at the time. And it is said that he was not good at speech.
This paper will explore the ‘Japanese leadership’, comparing the western leadership and Japanese one. It seems that ‘Japanese leader’ is different from typical one. From the history about Yoshida, this paper examine the feature of Japanese leadership. I will be on based on these resources. Masayasu Hosaka’s book, ‘ Yoshida Shigeru as paradox(2000)’. This writer is modern and contemporary historian. ‘The Yoshida Memory(1962)’ was written by Shugeru Yoshida. ‘Shigeru Yoshida’ was broadcasted in NHK TV as drama.
There was the opportunity for me to be asked that ‘who is the best Japanese leader in the history?’. I could not answer that immediately, because I had never thought about ‘the best Japanese leader in history’ until then. Now I took Lessons in ‘Leadership and The Dynamic you’. In that class, we are reading ‘Leading at the edge’, and studying about Shackleton. He showed his leadership and made difference in crisis. When I read this book about Shackleton, I associated him with One Japanese Prime minister: Shigeru Yoshida. He also tried to deal with the so many problems in the crisis, after the Pacific War. He called the time ‘’climactic’’. He was on the similar situations to Shackleton. However, Shackleton’ leadership is typical one: The action of leading a group of people or an organization, or the ability to do this. (Oxford,dictionary) For example, Shackleton tried to do something in order to make his colleagues follow: clear vision and explain about it and use right words. On the other hand, Yoshida sometimes sticked to his own idea and his idea was not clear, that was criticised by media at the time. And it is said that he was not good at speech.
This paper will explore the ‘Japanese leadership’, comparing the western leadership and Japanese one. It seems that ‘Japanese leader’ is different from typical one. From the history about Yoshida, this paper examine the feature of Japanese leadership. I will be on based on these resources. Masayasu Hosaka’s book, ‘ Yoshida Shigeru as paradox(2000)’. This writer is modern and contemporary historian. ‘The Yoshida Memory(1962)’ was written by Shugeru Yoshida. ‘Shigeru Yoshida’ was broadcasted in NHK TV as drama.
Your research looks really interesting! I have a question whether Western leadership style can work well in Japan. In your essay, is it remarked? By the way I'm looking forward to reading your essay!
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