We asked Mr. Shinmura to make a video message for the international students of the Global MBA at DBS which will start in autumn of next year. He was an alumni who graduated from DBS in 2008. He is one of the managing directors and a member of the board at Ganko Food Service CO. LTD. The firm has more than 100 Japanese Sushi restaurants across Japan. Especially, the restaurants in Kyoto are unique because the company bought a traditional huge old house with a beautiful Japanese garden and recreated it into a restaurant.
The customers from overseas and from Japan enjoy going to the restaurants, having an experience of Japanese traditional foods with Sushi, and after meal their go to the nice garden of the restaurant. The garden has a waterfall, traditional ponds, and lots of different trees which are very unique and can be seen only in Japan. The prices are reasonable with including the drinks such as beer, Japanese hot or cold Sake, and wine, etc. He started to work in this firm when he was a university student as a part time job and after several years, he became a managing director and a board member, CFO, CIO, and CHO.
He said in the interview that he enjoyed the business school "Kakushinjuku Project" which is a class for traditional craftsmen and craftswomen to who are supported by the business school which provided an MBA education. Mr. Shinmura was inspired and got many hints from the class and used those in his business. For instance, one of the lectures, Mr. Kawabe who is doing CG (Computer Graphics) Yuzen using the patterns and designs from Yuzen Printing which is the traditional painting method of Kimono, Japanese traditional dress. Mr. Kawabe was growing up in Kyoto surrounded by lots of Kimono due to the family business. He learned this skill and used the patterns and designs which have been inherited for several hundred years by their ancestors. He had the idea of using elements of Kimono design in different materials and items by creating digital data, such as a swimming suites for Synchronized swimming, bags, clocks, and umbrellas, etc.
Mr. Shinmura got this idea from Mr. Kawabe and he wants to use elements of Japanese food, including Sushi, in Japan to use at Japanese restaurants overseas for expanding their business overseas. He told us at the end of the video about this dream for his future.
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