BEST EGGS BENEDICT MORNING ON KBZY BEST STEAK Willamette Valley Grill • Red Lion Salem REPORT DAILY AM 1490 Willamette Valley Grill • Red Lion Salem Salem Business Journal serving the mid-willamette valley • www.sbjnews.com SALEM, OREGON APRIL 2011 VOL. 7, NO. 5 The Japanese-Salem Special Link BY TIM BUCKLEY area put a pall on those relations. It took a generation to repair the fabric of trust (Editor’s note: The publisher and staff between the cultures. A chance meeting of the SBJ wish to express their deepest between two educators in the 1930s aided sympathy and condolences to those in the that reparation, the beginning of lasting Salem/Keizer area whose family, friends friendship and business partnerships in and acquaintances may have suffered the Salem area. because of the March earthquake, tsunami The Education Link and radiation poisoning in Japan.) G. Herbert Smith, Willamette Salem’s history with Japanese culture University’s President (1942 – 69) and business dates to the late 1800s. By and Taizo Kaneko, founder of Tokyo 1940, Keizer and Lake Labish was home International University (1965) shared to dozens of Japanese-American farm a passion for personalized instruction families; and downtown, Salem had a and a vision of global connections. A variety of popular Japanese-American student exchange, beginning in the 1960s, owned stores. (There’s a brief, well-written blossomed between the universities. account online, provided by the Salem Salem’s Sister City program with Kawagoe, Public Library: http://www.salemhistory. Japan, grew out of this new partnership. net/people/japanese_americans.htm.) 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He and his In the past 22 years, thousands of foreign wife, Eileen Sakai, founded Pacific Dreams students have flowed between the TIU in 1992 to provide American and Japanese campus near Tokyo, and its campus co- companies with technical translation and located at Willamette University in Salem cross-cultural consulting services. Today, (http://www.tiua.edu/). The one-year the Wilsonville-based company provides a intercultural American Studies Program variety of HR consulting and productivity (ASP) helps students from Asian nations trainings for companies in the Salem area to study their chosen majors at Willamette, doing business with Japanese firms: IMEX, while improving their English language Yamasa and West Salem Machinery, for skills. Conversely, Willamette University example. also offers Japanese Studies and Asian Among the Japanese concepts Mr. Sakai’s Studies, with students and professors company teaches to American employees going abroad to learn and teach. But while are “kuuki,” “nemawashi” and “kaizen.” here, the ASP students are also enmeshed Kuuki is the unspoken mood, the air or in local culture: living with American atmosphere of a situation.