29: April 1986: Goodbye, Tsurumi Manufacturing Plant(engine manufacturing plant in Japan)

Please send me away from Isuzu to work for the owner company of an Isuzu partner company that has the same objectives as I do, and ...

38: January 1994: Farewell, Isuzu Motors, My New Challenge to the World

...the people at the partner companies soon began to refer to me as the god of Kaizen. My job promotion and salary review were at top levels, and people trusted and depended on me everywhere... It was around that time when I began to sense a diminishment in that spark that fed my spirit of challenge...