-First of all, please tell us about your career briefly.
| Nov. 1954 | Born in Osaka |
| Apr. 1988 | Joined Polyplastics in mid-career. Nagoya Branch Tokai office (Hamamatsu) |
| Dec. 1990 | Nagoya Branch Sales Department Unit 2 (Automotive group) |
| Oct. 1995 | Sales Department Unit 2 (Automotive group, Tokyo) |
| Apr. 2016 | Sales Planning Department (Tokyo) |
| Apr. 2007 | PSL (Shanghai) |
| June 2014 | PMT (Bangkok) |
| May 2018 | PAPS (Singapore) |
-Now, please answer the following quick questions in one or a few words:
| Tell us about your hobbies. | Looking for restaurants with nice atmosphere that have good food. Recently playing with my three grandchildren. |
| What is your favorite food? | Creative Japanese food. When I'm on business in Japan I usually have (1) tempura (2) sushi or (3) soba noodles for lunch. |
| Describe yourself in a word. | Good natured old man |
| What is your favorite sport? | I like to watch major league games (baseball) on TV. I've been playing golf for about 40 years but my score is still around 100. |
| What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
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Recently red wine. But when I'm having a good time drinking with my friends anything is OK. |
| If you could spend a day with any celebrity, who would it be? | Yuriko Ishida (I think she would be fun to drink with!) |
| What is the very first thing you did after you moved to the new country? | It was the first time to take my wife along in 11 years, so we looked for a place to live together. |
-Lastly, we would like to ask this question:
‘What do you think is “leadership”? ‘/ ’What makes a good leader?’
I think the perception of what makes a good leader changes with the times and the environment, but generally I think a good leader is popular in and outside the company.
Particularly overseas, customs and the ways of thinking are different, so I feel that it is important to take the opinions of the local staff largely into consideration in proceeding with business.
-Any comments before we end?
This is my third consecutive overseas assignment--Shanghai, Bangkok, and now Singapore.
I think it will probably be my last. I want to leverage the experience I've acquired thus far in the effort to instruct and develop the local staff and junior colleagues. I hope to end up my Polyplastics life by taking up the challenge of aiming for the ideal image for Polyplastics ASEAN, with the motto "cheerful, unhurried, never give up."
Written by Mr. Tomoaki Tanaka