The Precision of a Sharpening for Serious Scissors Users

As I look at the present-day recession in Japanese economy, I am concerned deeply not about the recession itself, but about the lack of spirituality which seams to have caused it. This spirituality includes morals, a public spirit, a sense of justice and kindness and love between people.
We have lost these things, and I believe that this has created condition in the Japanese economy today.

Before we consider how to recover a healthy economy we should first think about to recover a right spirit.
Under these circumstances, I believe that, once again, we need to consider the reason we exist our mission and the purpose for which our companies were founded.　Not only company but as individual persons we should seek answers to our own questions as to what we are living for and what we are working for.

The spirit of the business man in Japan, such as “if the customer’s happy, then I am happy too,” and “what the customer thinks is what I think.”

The former implies that our priority is to please customers and to be helpful to them by putting ourselves in their shoes. When we do that we are able to make a profit. The idea that the customer comes first relates to the latter saying “what the customer thinks is what I think.”
This spirit of business is somehow gone now.

“Three partners must agree” It means that the seller, buyer and society must be all satisfied.
“Profit always follows righteous deeds.”

When a company is founded there are should be a certain set of ideals that the founder has in mind and holds to.
The group that has contact with customers on the “front line” of sales has to be the most important people in company. This group also has information on all customers and connections, more so than any other group in the company. The customers come out on top and so do the people on the sales front who have direct contact with them. “Inverted Pyramid”, they are on the front line and sustain the company. Followed a principle in my life and that is “Service and Sacrifice” or “serving others” and also along with this principle, desired with all my heart to be a good servant. “The spirit of service”.
With the spirit of service, you can respect people’s right, understand them and serve them. Our Japanese hearts have inherited this from distant ancestors.

“It is more blessed to give them to receive” we should determine to enjoy giving rather than receiving in our business dealings. This idea impressed us as we talked.

I believe a hair stylist’s job is not just to style a person’s hair, but also to maintain the health of each client; a doctor for hair.  Therefore, I am certain that the condition of the scissors, which directly come in contact with hair, is the most important aspect in a hair stylist’s professional attitude.  Therefore, although it may seem like the scissors are cutting properly, whether it is actually performing clean cuts becomes a very important factor.  Helping you to maintain scissors that can do this is a prerequisite in providing our service. We consider the characteristics of the scissors used (the natural characteristic of the metal used, the shape of the scissors, etc), the condition (how much the frame may be strained, rust, damage obtained by other sharpeners, etc), and the cutting style of each hair stylist (dry cut, slide cut, etc) to aim for an effortless clean cut.  Maintaining your scissors is much like brushing your teeth.  There isn’t any one that doesn’t brush their teeth after getting a routine check up, and even if you religiously brush your teeth doesn’t mean you don’t need a check up.  If you slack on brushing your teeth just because you are expected to go for a check up, the result will end up hurting you.  When the condition of the scissors are poor, it is not only the hair stylist suffers.  It is the client who came paying to get a haircut, trusting in the knowledge and work of the hair stylist. To maintain the health of your client’s living hair, please have regular maintenance on your scissors.