Re: Out On A Pledge Dojo Alone
Olegario Benford
This dojo provides training for inflator assemblies and also develops trainers for this process.
In order to guarantee safety, quality, and operability, new employees and contractors receive training here using simulation devices as part of their onboarding process. This ensures they have the standard level of knowledge and skills before engaging in production line operations. In addition, the space is equipped with various simulation devices, each tailored for specific product types and procedures. The devices are used to develop multi-skilled workers and contribute toward maintaining a flexible production line. The dojo also provides training and certifications for operator trainers as well as certifications for critical roles, such as visual inspectors, among other roles.
The focus in this dojo is on the knowledge and skills required for facility maintenance.
Trainees are provided basic knowledge about electrical and mechanical engineering as well as practical application lectures on machining processes such as drilling and tapping, electrical wiring, soldering, and sequence programs.
Two types of training are conducted. The Line-Keeper Development Program (six months) is intended to train key maintenance persons for the manufacturing division, and the Machine-Keeper Development Program (four days) helps trainees develop their daily maintenance knowledge and gives them troubleshooting skills for common problems.
In the final phases of the Line-Keeper Development Program, trainees create end-to-end processes from scratch, i.e., assembling a training device from component parts, create a sequence program for the device, and confirm its operation. Through these exercises, they learn about the focus areas for adjusting devices and acquire the practical skills for maintaining them.
In addition, trainees also go through other exercises, such as troubleshooting for intentionally introduced failures in simulation devices and teaching X-Y robots and multiple axis robots. Through these exercises, the dojo passes on the knowledge and skills to the next generation and improves facility maintenance competency.
The focus here is on safety, and training at the dojo is part of the site training for the Harima Plant in order to prevent occupational accidents. The Safety Dojo works toward the following goals: 1) provide a place dedicated to helping trainees learn from past incidents and gain self-discipline; 2) give trainees opportunities to become accustomed to factory rules and regulations; and 3) enable trainees to cultivate their awareness and an accurate understanding of safety.
The dojo consists of two areas: where materials and photos of past occupational accidents at Harima plant are exhibited, and a training area with simulators and where trainees attend lectures.
There are five zones in the training area: 1) the factory rule zone, where trainees get accustomed to factory rules such as those related to customary greetings, dress codes, and pointing-and-calling procedures; 2) the basic behavior zone, and the 3) operation zone and 4) practice zone, where trainees learn safety basics for production activities and gain experience; and 5) the safety pledge zone, where trainees chant the safety slogan.
Safety Dojo activities are available to approximately 1,200 people, including everyone at the Plant and Group employees.
Here, trainees learn the importance of and concepts behind maintaining quality in order to deliver safe and reliable products to all customers. Because the products we make help protect lives, this training is a reconfirmation that even one defective product among a million is 100% defective for our customers. Videos are also used to communicate past serious defects, explore the state of mind of the employees who actually dealt with the problem at the time, and what those employees would like to emphasize to their colleagues today. The aim is to impart the magnitude of the impact that serious defects have. Additionally, we use group discussions to educate employees on what is necessary to prevent problems from occurring or from reaching customers so it becomes second nature to them. Quality Dojo training is also provided to all employees working at Harima Plant.
A master of the Kogan-Ryuu school and Gennosuke's senior. A hulk of a man, Ushimata uses an immensely large wooden sword known as Kajiki or swordfish (Seigen comments that appears to be a Suburitō) which he wields with ease.
When he was a boy, Gonzaemon pledged to a young girl named Fuku, that he would return in three years as a fine swordsman. By the time Gonzaemon and Fuku had become adults, Gonzaemon returned and killed Fuju, and he also castrated himself with his bare hands as a sign of allegiance to his master.
Gonzaemon Ushimata is one of the most advanced students of the Kogan Style and is the (head) instructor of the Dojo. Though, according to his own words, he has not yet mastered it, he easily defeats Irako in episode 2 ("The Yodare Azuki Cerimony"). At Kogan's insistence, Gonza heads out on a voyage in ep. 11 ("Moonlight") to challenge all dojos boasting an "unrivalled" sign, as is customary for the Kogan Style Dojo and though he heads out alone, this poses no difficulty for him. Upon his return, however, he is beset by assassins sent by Kengyou Shizuhata and Seigen Irako in order to keep him away from Kogan. Despite being surrounded, he blocks their throwing darts with his enormous sword and kills three of the assailants (who thought they were outside of his range) with Nagare, the same technique Fujiki employed to kill the older of the Funaki brothers. Semimaru prepares to spit a poisoned needle at Ushimata's back, but before he can do so, Ushimata decapitates him with the the Kogan Style's deadliest technique, the Nagare Boshi or Hoshi Nagare.
On The Long Game, we highlight stories of courage and conviction on and off the field. From athletes who are breaking barriers for women and girls to a Syrian refugee swimmer who overcame the odds to compete at the Paralympics, The Long Game examines the power of sport to change the world for the better.
On The Long Game, we highlight stories of courage and conviction on and off the field. From athletes who are breaking barriers for women and girls to a Syrian refugee swimmer who overcame the odds to compete at the Paralympics, the show examines the power of sport to change the world for the better.
Newsclip: [00:00:10] "The sudden capture of the country's capital has shocked the world and caused bedlam this morning at the Kabul airport, where thousands of Afghans are struggling to get on." [00:00:17][7.8]
Friba Rezayee: [00:00:25] Now, with all the athletes leaving the country, all the educated people are leaving the country, I have a concern that the legacy of education and the legacy of sport will leave with them. If education and sport die in a society, what will remain in the society? It will be an empty, meaningless society. [00:00:49][23.4]
Ibtihaj Muhammad: [00:00:51] From Foreign Policy and Doha Debates. This is The Long Game, a podcast about the power of sports to change the world. I'm your host, Ibtihaj Muhammad. As an African-American, as a Muslim, from birth, you are political. Sports is how I learned to advocate for myself. It's where I found my voice. And this season on The Long Game, we're going to hear from other athletes who are using their voices to create meaningful change in this world. [00:01:18][26.8]
Ibtihaj Muhammad: [00:01:25] Friba Rezayee knows what it's like to leave her country. She did it once as a child when the Taliban first took over Afghanistan. Friba returned in 2001. She started training in the sport of judo. And in 2004, she became the first woman to represent Afghanistan in the Olympics. But just a year later, Friba was forced to leave Afghanistan again. Friba spent several years in Pakistan and relocated to Canada in 2011. There, she worked tirelessly to support Afghan women in sports and education. Her mission is to help create her country's future leaders. But now that the Taliban is back in power, what's to become of Friba's dream of gender equality in Afghanistan? Here's Friba: [00:02:12][47.2]
Ibtihaj Muhammad: [00:02:17] I always believed that everybody is equal, everybody's the same, everybody should be respected. And I was a very hardheaded child during Eid - Muslim families' festival, like Christmas - my mother made a joke that we are getting new clothes for the boys, but not for the girls, just to tease me. And one of my brother confirmed that, and I slapped him very hard. And I was only five years old. I did not like being treated like that even for a second as a joke, because to me, it didn't make any sense. I was like, 'If I am born, if I exist, I should have the same rights as my brothers.". [00:03:00][43.9]
Friba Rezayee: [00:03:04] I was born in Afghanistan, in the capital of Kabul. I was born in a big family. I had three sisters and four brothers. Given the Afghan society and Afghan culture and perspective towards women and girls, there was no gender equality. Boys and girls were always separated, and that always bothered me, because I did not see any fun in playing with the dolls or like sitting at home, like playing kitchen or like tea party. I was a very outdoor person. I always wanted to be very active. Always very - what do we call a "boyish" games? I was not allowed to go outside and play soccer with the boys, but I did. I was not allowed to go to just hang out with the boys outside, and I always got in trouble. But I always did that, because I wanted to set a precedent as a child for my existence and for my rights. My father always supported me, he's a very supportive that he always loved us, no matter what we did, and he always supported us, no matter what we did. My mother had the expectation from me that I would grow up, and I would get married early age. I would bear children, and I would become an obedient housewife, and I would become a good mother - a mother of probably six or seven children in Afghanistan. And I will have a very small and traditional life. She always expected that from me, but when I turned out to be the opposite, she was disappointed at the beginning. She wasn't happy when I played sport, when I went to my dojo, when I went for boxing. She was upset with me, and there were times that whenever I came home from my judo training, in order to make her happy, I would immediately go do the chores, do the laundry, wash the dishes, clean house to make her happy. But later, after the Olympics, she was realizing that this is what I wanted to do, and she supported me after that. [00:05:13][128.4]
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