Cleaning and “Chi（氣）”are strongly connected. Even if I clean an invisible place, Chi goes well and people staying at the place feel very comfortable.

If I stay at a dirty place, my mind will go wild. If I work in a cleaned office, my mind will also become in order. After a company starts to clean their vehicles, the car accidents of the company will sharply decrease.

If I find an office clean and neat when I visit there, the company must be reliable. If I find its lavatory very dirty, I should not deal with the company.

I don’t know whether it is useful or waste of time for work to spend two hours every morning. But I am sure that cleaning has made my spirit. I believe that every company should have one hour for cleaning and keeping everything in order.

I have been cleaning my office for two hours every morning for these two decades. I have a mentor for my life and management, whose name is Kagiyama Hidesaburo. When I was 38 years old, I met him. At that time, Mr. Kagiyama was 58 years ol…