Tokyo in Tennessee

Series: Sixty Minutes Series

Duration: 16

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1983

Creator: New York

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how Nissan Motors of Japan is opening a 69-acre automotive plant in Smyrna, Tennessee and hoping to teach American workers the Japanese work ethic of 'master your equipment, love your fellow worker.' Offers the remarks of a core of Smyrna plant workers who were trained in Japan who are optimistic about the undertaking and the comments of United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser who voices skepticism. Originally shown on the CBS program 60 Minutes.

Complete Record: Visits the recently built Nissan Motors truck plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, and talks with American employees who were trained in Japan according to the Japanese work ethic. Points out that the Americans, working and living among their Japanese counterparts, returned to the U.S. with a work ethic concept of management/labor teamwork instead of boss/worker mistrust. United Auto Workers' president Douglas Fraser voices his skepticism about the plant's success., The Nissan Corporation built a truck plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. To ensure that an American-built vehicle would be as good as a Japanese one, they sent their American employees to Japan for on-the-job training. The Americans returned with a new work ethic: management/labor teamwork instead of boss/worker mistrust. , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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