For your first discussion, after reading the Harvard articles "Time and Motion Regained" and "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System", and Influence of Japanese Values on its Business Culture, what type of Japanese practices you found to be quite interesting, and can some of these practices be transferrable to any of the operations$/$processes that you encounter in your place of employment? Will the perceptions related to the Japanese culture make it difficult to implement some of the practices that have been pioneered by the Toyota Production System?