横浜こぼれ話は筆者の佐藤栄次が随筆や意見や考えを書いておりますので、一度見に来てください、

When I became the manager of the group in charge of developing countries, I often talked with people in trading companies. The reason was that there was an ODA (Official Development Assistance) business. The trading company used the Japanese government’s ODA budget to propose aid projects to countries around the world to JICA.
For example, there were projects to build roads, water services and bridges, and projects to build schools and hospitals. In the case of hospital construction, Shimadzu, Toshiba, Hitachi, etc. were selected because medical equipment had to be delivered. However, since Toshiba had a policy of not doing high-priced equipment business in developing countries, most trading companies were doing business with Shimadzu Corporation. However, when I became the manager of the group in charge of developing countries, it became a rumor among trading companies that they started selling CT to developing countries, and they started to bring ODA projects to Toshiba.
One day, Mitsui’s manager Mr. Hashimoto brought to me a project he was preparing in Sri Lanka. And he said to me, “Let’s go to Sri Lanka once.” As a trading company manager, this manager was a straightforward person with no lies or blunders, and he was about the same age as me, so I immediately got on his story.
When I went to Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka had a lot of flowers and a nice climate, so I liked it very much. And our work went well.
After that, in another case, manager Hashimoto brought me a business case. It was a business to deliver hundreds of ultrasonic devices to Russia.
In that case, Mitsui’s vice president actually wanted to meet Mr. Komiya, Toshiba’s vice president. Therefore, manager Hashimoto asked me, “How about playing golf with Vice President Komiya?”
I had no acquaintance with Mr. Komiya, the vice president, so I talked to my boss, the general manager of the medical equipment division. Then the General manager told me: “I’ll explain to Mr. Komiya, so you should explain to Mr. Komiya, and you should go golf with Mr. Komiya.”
As I learned later, the general manager didn’t want to play the role of a chabozu (mailboy). In the end, golf was played by Mitsui & Co., Toshiba’s vice president, Hashimoto, and myself. I have rarely played golf in Japan. However, I did it when I was on a business trip abroad. The golf course was Chiba. I left Yokohama early in the morning and went by car. I was surprised to arrive at the target golf course, Tokyu Seven Hundred Club. Most of the cars were painted black. I intended to arrive early, but by the time I arrived at the golf course, the three had already had breakfast. So I tried to make an account. The golf course manager explained to me that I wouldn’t make such a payment at all here. It’s a world where everything is OK with a face pass. The vice president just bowed to the manager, saying thank you. I was surprised when I went to the tea ground. There were two caddies. Moreover, they were young caddies in their twenties or early thirties. The two vice presidents never seemed to be good at it, but they were still familiar with it. The golf ball distance was better for us two young people, but the score was better for the two old people. It seems that they are talking about business as they walk on the fairway. The story was like the mining of natural gas from Sakhalin or the Russian Far East and the pipeline that brought it to Japan. I was surprised to hear the story on TV news at that time. At first glance, they were just old men, but they weren’t the only ones. After golf, I wondered if they could take a bath, but it wasn’t. After a light toast with beer, Mitsui’s vice president said to vice president Komiya that he would like to discuss the matter again, and broke up casually.

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