People :
The winner of the prize of the best thesis of young scholars presented by the Japanese Society for Quality Control (JSQC)
Mr. Masaaki Kaneko

Mr. Masaaki Kaneko He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1979. He graduated from Nakamura Gakuen San’yo high school. Having graduated from the School of Science and Engineering at Waseda, he finished the master’s course of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering and he is now a PhD student of that school.

Kaneko says, ‘When one has an ideal, he or she usually sets a particular indicator for the ideal and makes a self-assessment. I systematized the behavior as an organized action in the thesis entitled “the method of self-assessment for the construction of the strategic management system”. People basically want to stay as they are and dislike change. This tendency is stronger in a large organization. However, now the times are changing. Every enterprise must revaluate itself periodically, otherwise it will go into decline.’ He talks passionately, and everyone is soon be fascinated with his eloquence.

‘The ability ,which an enterprise must possess, is variable in concert with the needs of customers or the situation of competition among companies. I will comparing it to the love. When a woman wants a man with good-looking and wealth, a man should think how to earn more money if he and his rival are not so different in their looking. If there is no difference in the light of wealth between the two, he has to have a graceful figure. Furthermore, if a woman refers to another requirements, the man also has to live up to it.’

Starting the PhD course, he is absorbed in research everyday. The thesis now he is writing deals with ‘the development of the method to evaluate the process of introducing the management system for the quality of medical treatment.’ ‘I can say that research is my hobby now. I always devote myself to anything which I considers to be valuable.’ ‘ When I saw the children smiling in a hospital, I decided to finish this thesis for these children.’ ‘ We cannot have another life. So I want to live this special life heroically. With my greatest power, I would like to help the people in trouble’, he says. In a loud voice he talks cheerfully. Seeing him, we can easily assume that he has liked to amuse others from his childhood. ‘ Now I have just planned about the next five years. After that, nothing is decided. But I shall reconsider and renew this five-year plan every single year, and thus I’ll be able to make a step steadily.’ Hearing his witty remarks, we can expect that he will invariably strive for his work, with his natural cheerfulness.