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  2. Business card - Wikipedia

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    A Oscar Friedheim card cutting and scoring machine from 1889, capable of producing up to 100,000 visiting and business cards a day. Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. [1] [2] They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid.

  3. Hanafuda - Wikipedia

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    Hanafuda. A typical setup with hanafuda for playing Koi-Koi. Hanafuda ( Japanese: 花札, lit. 'flower cards' [1] [2]) are a type of Japanese playing cards. They are typically smaller than Western playing cards, only 5.4 by 3.2 cm, but thicker and stiffer, [3] and often with a pronounced curve.

  4. Kanban - Wikipedia

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    Kanban (Japanese: 看板 meaning signboard) is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing (also called just-in-time manufacturing, abbreviated JIT). Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency. The system takes its name from the cards that track production within a factory.

  5. Etiquette in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Business cards are exchanged with care, at the very start of the meeting. Standing opposite each person, people exchanging cards offer them with both hands so that the other person can read it. Cards are not tossed across the table or held out casually with one hand.

  6. Nintendo - Wikipedia

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    Nintendo Co., Ltd. [b] is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles . Nintendo was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Koppai [c] by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards.

  7. JCB (credit card company) - Wikipedia

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    Products. Payment systems. Credit cards. Number of employees. 4,389 (2022) [1] Website. www .global .jcb /en /. JCB Co., Ltd. (株式会社ジェーシービー, Kabushiki gaisha jē shī bī), formerly Japan Credit Bureau, is a credit card company based in Tokyo, Japan .

  8. Karuta - Wikipedia

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    Karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta ["card"]) are Japanese playing cards. Playing cards were introduced to Japan by Portuguese traders during the mid-16th century. These early decks were used for trick-taking games. The earliest indigenous karuta was invented in the town of Miike in Chikugo Province at around the end of the 16th century.

  9. Kaizen - Wikipedia

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    Kaizen was first practiced in Japanese businesses after World War II, influenced in part by American business and quality-management teachers, and most notably as part of The Toyota Way. It has since spread throughout the world and has been applied to environments outside of business and productivity.

  10. Japanese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Wikipedia (ウィキペディア日本語版, Wikipedia Nihongoban, lit. 'Japanese version of Wikipedia') is the Japanese edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, [1] the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. As of May 2024 ...

  11. History of Nintendo - Wikipedia

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    Based in Kyoto, Japan, the business produced and marketed hanafuda. The name "Nintendo" is commonly assumed to mean "leave luck to heaven", but there are no historical records to validate this. [5] The handmade cards soon gained popularity, so Yamauchi hired assistants to mass-produce cards.