TOKYO — Some of the major

Japanese enterprises were
rocked by big scandals in-
volving their employees last
year.
_ For example, a bank clerk
has made headlines in the
Japanese papers in the past
few months by illicitly lending
1,900 million yen to a dubious
businessman.

More recently, an executive
has been fired by a large
camera maker because he had
embezzled more than 500
million yen from his company.

There have been reports of
similar scandals, though
eommitted on smaller scales,
in the newspapers almost
every week in the past months.

These scandal-rocked cor-
porations certainly have rules
of employment of office
regulations which forbid these
wrong-doings. Only, the wrong-
doers have ignored them.

In fact, few corporations are
without such written
regulations.

Generally, banks are among
those enterprises with the
strictest written regulations.

Sanwa Bank, for instance,
doesn’t allow its employees to
leave the office even during
lunch time without permission
of their superiors.

The bank’s employees also
have to ask permission of the
president if they want to do any
side job. And even during a
paid vacation, any employee
cannot take a trip that lasts for
three days or longer without
permission of his superiors.

On top of these and many
other written regulations,
Sanwa Bank has a lot of un-
written taboos that honest
employees are supposed to
observe.

cvery employee is
prohibited ,from folding his
arms when he is with a
customer. This taboo is in-
tended to avoid giving the
eustomer an impression that
the bank is an arrogant
organization.

Similarly, the bank’s em-
ployees are not allowed to talk
in whispers or to laugh in the
office lest customers get an
impression that they are being
talked about or laughed at.

And most banks have an-

unwritten rule which says that

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employees shall not go to the
race-tracks. And many banks
stipulate that their employees
do not borrow money even
from colleagues, much less

from loan sharks around the
corner.

Most banks go all the way to
prevent any kind of scandal.
They advise their employees
not to have secret love affairs
although such a taboo is not
written in any bank’s rule of
employment.

Perhaps banks have the
most unwritten taboos among
corporations, but some en-
terprises in other businesses do
have unwritten rules of their
own in addition to their rules of
employment.

Japanese businessmen are
known for entertaining their
customers in bars’ and
cabarets on expense accounts.

Sumitomo Kinzoku (Metal)
Co. goes to extremes by
prohibiting its employees to
say, ‘‘Let’s have another drink
to finish with,” while they are
entertaining customers.

In other words, any
Sumitomo employee must see
to it that his customer drinks to
his heart’s content. If the
customer says, ‘“‘Let’s go to
another bar,’’ the Sumitomo
man must say, ‘‘Yes, let’s.”’

At Hakuyosha, a big cleaning
corporation, there is an un-
written taboo that discourages
its employees from drinking
liquor at any place and at any
time.

The firm often sponsors
lectures by physicians on
temperance. The em-
ployees are also shown free
movies on teetotalism in the
firm’s gym from time to time.

They must not drink even
when they entertain their
customers or make their an-
nual sightseeing tour at
company expense.

Salesgirls work in uniforms
at most Japanese department
stores of Hankyu Department
Store.

The salesgirls there are
supposed to wear whatever
they like when they work. Or at

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least the store has run
newspaper ads to that effect.

But just drop in the store and
look around, and you find few
salesgirls in miniskirts.

“Well, it’s kind of taboo for
girls to wear miniskirts. If any
girl comes to work in a
miniskirt, her superior ad-
monishes her. We don’t allow
our girls to be more con-
spicuous than the customers,”
an executive explains.

Employees of Toyota Motors
are supposed to choose from
the company’s productions
when they want to buy their
own car. It’s an unwritten
taboo for them even to take a
taxi ride in a car made by rival
companies.

Dentsu is Japan’s largest
advertising agency and has
clients in almost every line of
business. And all enterprises
can be its future clients.

So, the firm’s unwritten
taboo is that its employees
speak no ill of any enterprises
even in private chats in bars.
The only exception is Coca
Cola. Dentsu is bent on selling
Pepsi Cola.

Employees of Feather Razor
Co. are discouraged from
shaving at home. Instead, they
are supposed to shave with
experimental razors after they
come to work. Even when they

OTTAWA FAMILIES

HAVE HIGHEST INCOMES

The final report of a
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
study of family incomes in-
cludes at least one surprising
conclusion: No clear trend in
regional differences in family
incomes could be discerned.

The survey, covering family
incomes for 1967, found that
average incomes ranged from
$8,438 in Ontario to $5,767 in the
Atlantic provinces. But the
differences were closely
related to rural-urban dif-
ferences.

Family incomes were-
highest in centres of 30,000
population or more —

averaging $8,456. Average
income in rural areas was
$5,408.

The average for all Canadian
families was $7,602, a 16-
percent increase from $6,536 in
1965. DBS estimates that two-
thirds of this was real gain,
with increased consumer

_prices absorbing the rest.

Among metropolitan areas,
Ottawa has the highest
average family income —
$10,089. Almost 40 percent of all
Ottawa families reported in-
comes of $10,000 or more. The
Toronto’s figures were next:
$9,789 and 39 percent.

The bureau found that 22.6
percent of families had in-
comes of $10,000 or more, but
they average ‘‘more than two”’
earners per family.

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go to a barber’s, they come
back unshaven.

For employees of Hankyu
Railways, it’s taboo to take a
seat in the company’s trains
even when they are not
crowded.

Arabian Petroleum Co.
prohibits its employees from
referring to the gulf between
Iran and Saudi Arabia as the
Persian Gulf. They are sup-
posed to call it the Arabian
Gulf as the Arabians do.

The firm’s major oil fields
are.in Kuwait. So it doesn’t
want to do anything that could

hurt the feelings of the

Arabians.

Yoshimoto Buildings of
Osaka is a real estate firm
which leases offices and
buildings to corporations.
Among the firm’s unwritten
taboos is to make a phone call.

Haruhiko Yoshimoto, the
president of the firm, always
tells his, employees, ‘“‘If
customers have something
they want to talk about with us,
they will call us. We don’t have
to call them first. Let’s save
money.” —New Canadian

GRACE MaciNNIS FIGHTS FOR PARK

New Democratic member of
parliament Grace MacInnis
issued a clarion call in the
House of Commons for the
preservation of Canada’s
‘justly famous and_ scenic
national parks’’ against the
encroachment of private
developers.

Representing the Vancouver
seat of Vancouver-Kingsway,
Mrs. MacInnis was pleading

for the conservation of Stanley
Park in Vancouver whose
fringes are being threatened
with highrise apartments, a 40
million dollar hotel and a
shopping complex at the park’s
entrance.

‘Instead of open space and a
magnificent view of mountains
and harbour, we are going to
get a concrete jungle within 24

feet of the park, an impossible
traffic situation . .. and a
betrayal of public trust on a
grand scale.”’

The land to be developed is
owned by the National Har-
bours Board. She challenged
Transport Minister Jamieson
to deny that the Board is aiding
private developers ‘‘to fence
the public away from water
and mountains and Park.”

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