BEPro 7日目 Hiroshi Mikitani, Japanese Maverick
2013年4月18日
Thinking Ahead
- What caused Hiroshi Mikitani to challenge Japanese society?
- How does he want to change society?
- What are his suggestions to improve English language skills in Japan?
- What kind of reforms is he discussing with the prime minister?
Key Concepts
- A maverick is a person who is not like everyone else but has independent and unusual opinions.
- When you have the ear of someone, it means that they will listen to your opinions and pay attention to your ideas.
- The term, inwardly focused is used to describe a business that is too concerned about its products and not about the customers who will use them. And people who areinwardly focused tend to have the same narrow mind. They are not interested in challenge or what others do and they do not like change.
- Under the thumb is an idiom that means to be completely controlled by somebody, in this case, the authorities.