Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Thursday, February 01, 2018

meishi

In Japan, many businessmen have meishi (calling cards).

The calling cards help to know what "status"/"rank" the person you are meeting with is.

Recently Satoshi went to a seminar during his lunch break.

The man was a small business farmer in Kyoto and his calling card was this (photo above).

300 grams of rice, grown by him.

I thought it was very innovative.

I like that he uses organic fertilizers and sells directly to his customers.

Most rice goes through brokers which in recent years has had some problems with LYING about the types of rice actually being sold.

We've been supporting Kumamoto prefecture (cute packaging, yeah?!) to help them rebuild after their earthquakes, but this rice came through a broker...

After we finish the rice from Kumamoto, I'll probably purchase some rice from this farmer to support small business.