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My Name is Natsuko Kokubu, and I live in Nashville, Tennessee, in the Southern United States. In my daily life, I am an accountant who specializes in process improvement.

Kaizen is a life-long process, not a result. So, by continuously scrapping or iterating any process, strategy, idea, or habit, I hope to improve. My goal is not to make a significant change all at once because a change is a double-edged sword. Sometimes it may be good or bad. So, I test the ideas aiming for a slight 1 % improvement.

Each posting details an investigation into ideas to determine their worth by reading, researching, exploring, and experimenting with the Ideas. To facilitate this process, I create a kaizen Project. The projects are successful at times but occasionally fail. When the project fails, I reevaluate and revise the process before trying again. Then, as I make discoveries or improvements, I share them with people.

Blog

A Day at the Nephrologist’s Office With My Wife

Written 6/24/2024 Hello Dear Readers, Today, I found myself at the nephrologist’s office instead of my usual Tuesday or Thursday appointment due to a schedule change initiated by the doctor’s office.  Luckily, my wife was able to take a day off to join me today, turning the appointment into a little excursion. She’s been eager …

‘Of Mice and Men’ Made Me think about Mental Illness

Introduction In this blog, I discuss a sticky social issue we are still trying to figure out by delving into John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck drew inspiration from Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse” to write this novel—the novel centers on two migrant workers navigating California during the Great Depression. Lennie, one …

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