Friday, Feb. 22nd 2007
Concrete
While I was riding to school this morning I noticed a group of construction workers intently observing a machine digging in the street while one man seemed to be explaining what was going on. This made me think of a few things about Japan: education is important in Japan in order to get a degree and especially the name of the school makes a difference. However the studied subject is not as important for most. The reason is the company will teach you the necessary skills proper to that company, no matter your field of study. Right across the construction site there is Komatsu, a large construction equipment manufacturer. The employees seemed to be from Komatsu and it would not surprise me if this was just a training session. Also, Japan has very few welfare programs and what replaces this is construction. There are many bridges and concrete structures, even some which seem redundant. To make sure people don’t end up without work, the government initiates various construction or reparation projects. It would not surprise me either if that street did not really need that much attention in the first place. They seem to be rebuilding the asphalt but the street was perfect before they started working on it…
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