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ビジネス日本語講座

齋藤茂樹 (Shigeki Saito)

🎯 Japanese lessons & AI voice data licensing 👉 https://sites.google.com/view/shigeki/home ——— 📣 このポッドキャストでは、日系企業で働きたい方向けに、ビジネスで使われる日本語やマナー、面接・業界研究のコツなどを解説しています。 ◆ 無料メルマガ https://my162p.com/p/r/odSmegng ◆ YouTube www.youtube.com/@Shigeki-Sensei ◆ブログ https://businessnihongo555.blogspot.com/ ◆Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shigeki_sensei555/ ◆電子書籍 www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0DSWMHJRZ ◆お問い合わせ https://forms.gle/Ph1frcztsKPEH5H79

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00:11:06

なぜ現代人は友達ではなく仲間を欲しがるのか

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2026/08/28

Why do people today seem to want “companions” or “teammates” rather than traditional friends? In this episode, I explore the growing popularity of the Japanese word nakama in self-help communities, startups, and online groups. Friendship can involve deep, open-ended emotional responsibility, while nakama relationships are often connected to a specific goal, project, or community. This makes them flexible: warm enough to reduce loneliness, yet easy to dissolve when circumstances change. But there is

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00:15:59

人間は「何者でもない人生」を肯定できるのか

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2026/08/27

Can we accept a life in which we never become “someone”? In this episode, I begin with Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and explore the modern pressure to succeed, build expertise, gain followers, and prove our value to society. Social media has made comparison easier than ever, turning even ordinary life, loneliness, and failure into marketable content. But could AI eventually offer another possibility? Instead of making humans more productive and competitive, perhaps technology could create a

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00:08:19

人類はいつから、こんなにほっこりしたがるようになったのか

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2026/08/26

Why do we crave “hokkori”—that warm, cozy feeling—so much today? In this episode, I explore how the Japanese word “hokkori” reflects something deeper about modern life. From relaxing Vlogs and coffee breaks to quiet walks and small everyday pleasures, contemporary culture often transforms strong desires, ambition, anger, and competition into safer, gentler emotions. Drawing on Nietzsche’s idea of the “Last Man,” I ask whether our preference for comfort represents healthy resistance to an exhausting

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00:07:05

「一気通貫」はなぜビジネス日本語になったのか

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2026/08/25

What does ikki-tsūkan (一気通貫) mean in Japanese business? Originally a mahjong term, it has become a common expression in Japanese companies, describing a process handled continuously from beginning to end. You might hear phrases such as “supporting clients from planning to operations” or “managing everything from recruitment to employee retention.” In this episode, I explain the meaning and origins of ikki-tsūkan, why this particular mahjong term fits business so well, and how to use it naturally at

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00:12:24

サウナで整う、という言葉に感じる違和感

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2026/08/24

Why does simply feeling good no longer seem enough? In Japan, sauna culture often uses the word totonou, meaning to feel physically and mentally “reset” or balanced. But I sometimes feel uncomfortable with this idea. Modern life encourages us to give everything a purpose: reading becomes self-improvement, exercise becomes health management, meditation becomes productivity, and even relaxation must produce benefits. In this episode, I explore the value of simple pleasure, Oscar Wilde, modern

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00:16:52

狂わなければ救われない

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2026/08/23

Modern life demands that we behave rationally, efficiently, and responsibly. But perhaps human beings also need places where they can temporarily “go crazy.” After trying a karaoke app and watching strangers sing together online, I began thinking about digital communities, identity, loneliness, and freedom. What initially looked strange started to resemble something much older: a festival. In the past, people gathered in public spaces to sing, dance, drink, and escape everyday roles. Today, similar

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00:12:45

路上の施しとYouTubeの不幸コンテンツは、なぜ同じではないのか

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2026/08/22

Is giving money to a person begging on the street the same as sending money to someone sharing their struggles on YouTube? In this episode, I explore a crucial difference. Traditional charity ideally aims to reduce suffering until assistance is no longer necessary. On social media, however, suffering can become content that generates views, donations, advertising revenue, and attention. This creates a strange conflict: recovering may improve someone’s life while reducing the value of their content

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00:12:28

労働力しか売るものがなかった時代から、人生そのものを売る時代へ

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2026/08/21

What happens when people stop selling only their labor and begin selling their entire lives? In this episode, I use Marx’s ideas about labor and alienation as a starting point to examine YouTube and social media. Today, poverty, loneliness, unemployment, failure, daily routines, and even private emotions can become content. Some creators sell vulnerability, while others sell expertise, status, and authority. Although these strategies look completely different, both can turn the self into a product

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00:14:15

苦しみは隠れた原価である

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2026/08/20

What if employee suffering were treated as a hidden business cost? In this episode, I explore how companies carefully track materials, logistics, labor, inventory, and productivity while largely ignoring the emotional and psychological costs of unnecessary meetings, internal politics, excessive approvals, difficult managers, and endless coordination. Employee suffering consumes time, energy, and concentration, yet customers do not pay more because workers suffered. In that sense, suffering can

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00:19:48

自己啓発はなぜ社会問題を個人の問題に変えてしまうのか

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2026/08/19

Why does self-help culture turn social problems into personal problems? In this episode, I examine how low wages, inequality, insecure employment, and difficult working conditions are often reframed as individual challenges requiring better skills, habits, productivity, or entrepreneurship. Instead of changing society, the solution becomes escaping from its problems. Even more paradoxically, those who claim to have escaped may then sell their “escape methods” to people still struggling inside the

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00:21:38

なぜ自己啓発は習慣を好むのか

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2026/08/18

Why does self-help culture love habits so much? In this episode, I examine how ordinary behaviors such as waking up early, reading, exercising, and arriving ten minutes early are transformed into supposed formulas for success. Successful people may have good habits, but that does not prove those habits caused their success. Education, networks, resources, timing, luck, and control over one’s time may matter far more. I also explore how ordinary routines gain special meaning when practiced by famous

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00:15:01

苦しみの原価低減、終わらない減価償却

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2026/08/17

In this episode, I examine the suffering of corporate employees through the language of accounting. Companies constantly try to reduce material, logistics, and production costs, yet the emotional cost imposed on employees is rarely treated the same way. I call this “the cost of suffering”: unnecessary meetings, internal coordination, difficult bosses, excessive reporting, and workplace politics that consume time and energy without creating customer value. I also explore suffering as an asset that

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00:14:04

苦しんでいないと仕事に見えない ── なぜ会社はストレスを成果と勘違いするのか

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2026/08/16

In this episode, I explore a peculiar aspect of Japanese corporate culture: the belief that work should involve visible suffering. Producing results efficiently is not always enough. Employees may also be expected to look busy, tired, stressed, and deeply involved in workplace relationships. Suffering can become a kind of unofficial currency that proves someone is working hard. This mindset also creates an “inheritance of hardship,” where people expect younger colleagues to endure the same

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00:11:15

欲望を道徳で包むと、人はなぜこじれるのか

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2026/08/15

In this episode, I explore why people become psychologically conflicted when they hide their desires behind morality. Wanting money, recognition, success, or status is not necessarily wrong. Problems arise when we fail to obtain what we want and then convince ourselves that those things never mattered. This can turn disappointment into resentment, jealousy, and moral superiority. Drawing on Nietzsche’s idea of ressentiment, I discuss why accepting our desires can make us more honest and

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00:09:40

会社を辞めても、頭の中では会社員のままの人がいる

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2026/08/14

What happens when people leave a company but remain employees in their minds? In this episode, I introduce the idea of the “employee in the brain” and “psychological lifetime employment.” After years inside organizations, people may struggle to see their accumulated knowledge, skills, and experience as their own assets. They can work confidently under a company name yet hesitate to speak, create, or do business under their own name. I explore why capable and conscientious employees may be especially

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00:11:41

ノウハウは売るものではなく、利益を生み出すために内部に蓄積するもの

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2026/08/13

If you have a truly profitable business method, why sell the method instead of using it yourself? In this episode, I examine the strange economics of the online “make money” industry. Traditional companies protect valuable know-how and use it to create better products, reduce costs, and build competitive advantages. Online, however, successful practitioners often become teachers selling their methods to others. Eventually, teaching people how to make money can become more profitable than the

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00:08:51

末人はVlogを撮る――『小さな幸せ』という現代の自己演出

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2026/08/12

What happens when “small happiness” becomes a product? In this episode, I explore the rise of minimalist, low-income lifestyle vlogs that transform modest daily routines into carefully crafted aesthetics. Simple meals, old apartments, quiet walks, and ordinary evenings become symbols of a supposedly richer inner life. Drawing on Nietzsche’s concept of the “Last Man,” I examine a curious paradox: people who appear to reject ambition and competition are turning that rejection into content within the

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00:15:01

現代において、人畜無害が徳になった

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2026/08/11

Has being harmless become a modern virtue? In this episode, I explore why calm, agreeable, non-confrontational personalities are increasingly rewarded on social media and YouTube. There is nothing wrong with kindness or peaceful living, but being harmless is not necessarily the same as being good. Real conviction can create conflict, ambition can look uncomfortable, and meaningful action often involves risk. Drawing on the idea of Nietzsche’s “last man,” I ask whether a culture obsessed with safety,

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00:14:36

独立すると「仕事を探さない能力」が必要になる

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2026/08/10

When you become independent, working harder is not always the right answer. In this episode, I explore why freelancers and small business owners eventually need the ability to stop creating unnecessary work. Early on, taking massive action helps build experience and judgment. But after enough learning, the real skill becomes knowing when to act, when to wait, and what not to do. Being busy is not the same as making progress. Independence means moving from simply completing tasks to deciding where

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00:12:48

アウトプット能力と市場価値は、必ずしも同じではない

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2026/08/09

Creating more doesn’t necessarily mean creating more value. In this episode, I explore the difference between output capacity and market value, especially in the age of generative AI. AI allows us to produce articles, videos, websites, software, and other content faster than ever. But producing ten products nobody wants may be less valuable than creating one solution that solves a real problem. The danger is that constant creation can make us feel productive while avoiding the uncomfortable work of

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