Lean Japan Alumni Tour – October 2024 – Kyushu
Inviting all alumni of the Lean Japan Tour to return to Japan to experience an all-new program.
Past participants of the Lean Japan Tour are invited to join Shinka Management in the beautiful southern island of Kyushu for the Lean Japan Alumni Tour. A completely new selection of company visits has been arranged in the prefectures of Fukuoka and Oita.
Also joining us for this special event will be Akinori Hyodo, the former manager of the Toyota HiAce plant. He will lead seminars and plant visit discussions throughout the week.
The tour will be held on Sunday 6th through Saturday 12th October, and will include kaizen seminars and visits to a variety of factories and organizations for site visits and meetings with senior management.
Tour Dates: 6-12 October 2024
Location: Fukuoka & Oita, Japan
Registration Fee: US$6,750
Lean Japan Alumni Tour registration form
For further details of the tour and to read about past visits see our kaizen tour page.
Contact us to express your interest in participating.
Example Itinerary (subject to change)
Sunday: Arrive Fukuoka
- Free time in Fukuoka
- Orientation & Seminar with former Toyota factory manager
Monday: Fukuoka – Site Visits & Training
- Toyota Kyushu Lexus factory visit
- Seminar with former Toyota factory manager
Tuesday: Saga & Fukuoka – Site Visits & Training
- Nissan Kyushu factory visit
- Daihatsu Kyushu factory visit
Wednesday: Oita- Site Visits & Training
- Omron Taiyo electrical components factory visit
- Toto Sanitechno Nakatsu factory visit
Thursday: Oita – Site Visits
- Fundokin miso factory visit
- Fundokin salad dressing factory visit
Friday: Oita – Site Visit & Debriefing
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal factory visit
- Oita City Government
Saturday: Oita – Recovery and Sightseeing
- Oita sightseeing
- Departure from Fukuoka Airport
Learn more about our Lean Japan Tour
The Lean Japan Tour is Shinka Management’s flagship lean professional development program. For further detail about our lean Japan tours, see the Lean Japan Tour page, or read more about past participants’ Lean Mission Testimonials.
What our tour participants have said…
Excellent, from preparing the tour group on do’s and don’ts to guidance on what to watch out for every step of the way. Cannot recommend this enough if you are looking to learn how to resolve issues, and want to understand the lean approach from philosophy to theory to practice. Thank you very much, Paul,…
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The Lean Japan Tour was well organized and full of passion, knowledge and hands-on practice. I was glad to join the program. Thanks a lot to the Shinka Management team.
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A very intensive and learning Lean Japan Study tour. Alternating with company tours, training session and feeling the Japanese culture. Experiencing the TPS live generated many new inputs and ideas for me. I can recommend it to anyone interested in Lean / Kaizen, but also to experts. It shows what culture is behind it and…
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It was an exciting experience learning about Japan’s culture and industrial mentality. I had the honor of seeing and experiencing the industrial culture in Japan and exploring the reasons for its prosperity based on the principle of “kaizen”, as well as witnessing the work environment in a distinctive way embodied in the principle of 5S. It was…
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Thank you for the well-organized and informative tour. It can be distracting to read and attend lectures about lean, but when combined with practical training and actual visits to the home of lean, it helps to clarify and connect all the dots. The tour was an eye-opening experience where we witnessed lean manufacturing principles in…
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