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Letters from Readers （Aug. - Oct., 2017） |
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Editor: Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin Univ.) |
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| Posted on Nov. 5, 2017; Updated: Nov. 12, 2017 |
Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Nov. 4, 2017)
To my thanks, I have been receiving emails occasionally from various readers in Japan and from overseas. I am going to post some of those communications suitable for open discussions, in the present page. There are communications in the Japanese page
also, though not shown in this English page.
(Note (Toru Nakagawa, Nov. 12, 2017)
: On a request from Prof. A. Seryi, communications between Naohiko Takayama and me are posted in English translation at the bottom of this page. And a short note is inserted for introducing Prof. Eiichi Yamaguchi's work.)
List of Letters from Readers:
| Jul. 18, 2017 | ---------------------------------------------- | Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" --------------------- |
| Jul. 20, 2017 | Simon Dewulf (Australia) | Swallows |
| Jul. 24, 2017 | Valeri Souchkov (The Netherlands) | On Nakagawa's introductions to ETRIA TFC2016 papers |
| Jul. 24, 2017 | Shireen Al - Jaouni (Jerusalem) | On social problems |
| Sept. 28, 2017 | ---------------------------------------------- | Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" --------------------- |
| Oct. 2, 2017 | Isak Bukhman (USA) | Short communication |
| Oct. 3, 2017 | Shireen Al - Jaouni (Jerusalem) | On human rights ans social issues |
| Oct. 9, 2017 | Toru Nakagawa | Response |
| Oct. 6, 2017 | Sung-Wook Kang (Korea) | Appreciation |
| Oct. 17, 2017 | ---------------------------------------------- | Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" --------------------- |
| Oct. 21, 2017 | Naohiko Takayama (Japan) | On Seryi's Keynote and the innovation diagram by Eiichi Yamaguchi |
| （Nov. 12, 2017) | Toru Nakagawa | Note: Brief introduction to Prof. E. Yamaguchi and his works. |
Oct. 21; Nov. 4, 2017 |
Toru Nakagawa |
Reply to Takayama, and discussions |
Nov. 10, 2017 |
Andrei Seryi (UK) |
Request of English translation of the communications between Takayama & Nakagawa |
| Top of this page | Update Jul 18, 2017 | Update Sept. 28, 2017 | Update Oct. 17, 2017 | Index of ''From the Readers' pages |
Japanese page |
Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Jul. 18, 2017
Photo Album: Baby Swallows at My Home (Photo and Edit: Toru Nakagawa)
4th day: Parents happen to come to feed one after another
10th day: A dragonfly is a big treat
14th day: Baby mouths and a youngster face
14th day: Baby mouths and a youngster face
Simon Dewulf (Australia) ==> Toru Nakagawa Jul. 20, 2017
Hi Toru, thanks for the reference [in the 'Letters from Readers' page].
I have a swallow nests here, they are beautiful. fly over 50km/hr, insect hunters. In their 'manmade-like' mud nest, they use sometimes their own feathers a composite with the mud. Super animals, we are blessed.
Best regards, simon
Dear Toru, Hope everything is well. Thank you once again for very useful material on TRIZ Future 2016 papers! ...
I would like to thank you for these impressive papers related to TRIZ especially social problems of poverty. Your continuous supporting and cooperation will be highly appreciated;
Best Regards; Shireen Al - Jaounii
Toru Nakagawa ==> Shireen Al - Jaouni Jul. 25, 2017
Thank you so much for your encouraging messages. Best wishes, Toru
Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Sept. 28, 2017
'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level (Toru Nakagawa)
Roses (at Reitaku Univ., Kashiwa), Photo by Toru Nakagawa on May 11, 2017
Dear Toru Nakagawa san, How are you my friend? I hope you are in good shape and full with positive energy.
Thank you very much for very interesting and valuable information. Best Regards, Isak
I would like to thank you for these impressive papers related to human rights and social issues.
Wishing you the very best of luck with your presentation tomorrow in Finland.
Your continuous supporting and cooperation will be highly appreciated;
Best Regards; Shireen Al - Jaouni
Thank you very much for your encouraging words.
I understand that you and people in your region are very serious about human rights and social issues.
We should reveal the relationships of Liberty, Love, and Ethics more clearly for reducing/solving the big and complex problems in the Human Culture.
Best wishes, Toru
Dear Professor Toru Nakagawa,
Teacher ! I remember seeing you in Seatle in 2002 at TRIZCON.
In a changing world, you are my senior and academic lighthouse in my life.
Your constant and steady appearance is a big example for me.
Through you, I learn what the scholar's path is.I am so glad to see you again in such a long time.
Please always be healthy and happy !Lappeenranta, Finland. 6th October, 2017 Sung-Wook Kang
(Receiving this greeting card from Mr. Sung-Wook Kang at ETRIA TFC was a big surprise for me. I feel very much honored and happy. I myself also have some senior 'lighthouse' people whom I wish to follow in my life. Thanks, thanks.
Toru Nakagawa, Nov. 4, 2017)
Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Oct. 17, 2017
Evolution of Scientific Instruments & Methodology of Inventiveness in Applications to Science (Andrei A. Seryi, UK)
Yellow leaves (Lappeenranta, Finland) Toru (Oct. 4, 2017)
(Note (Toru Nakagawa, Nov. 12, 2017): On a request from Prof. A. Seryi, communications between Naohiko Takayama and me are posted here in English translation. And a short note is inserted for introducing Prof. Eiichi Yamaguchi's work.)
Thank you very much for interesting articles in your Home Page. The new article of Professor Andrei Seryi's Keynote Lecture is very interesting for me; it is related to the topic I was wondering for a long time.
I studied physics in my university days, but had some difficulty to master it. When I studied about discoveries of various principles and laws in physics, I alway had a question 'How the genious scientists obtained the basic ideas resulting in such principles?'. Mathematics in physics was another barrier for me at that time. But the difficulty of finiding new original ideas have made me feel those principles and laws not quite mastered for myself. When I met TRIZ many years ago, I had an impression that TRIZ might help us generate ideas in physics.
Recently I read the book "Five Physics Theories to Learn Before You Die" by Professor Eiichi Yamaguchi (2015, in Japanese). (See my note attached below, represented in a Mind Map.) He says that the 'Original idea generation' in the action of 'Knowledge creation' can only happen after 'Induction' (or understanding the essence). I think TRIZ should be useful for this 'Induction' process.
For the next process of concretizing the ideas, however, I do not know how to achieve 'Original idea generation' and 'Deduction' (or application of principles for practices). If we have some ways of thinking and some guide of directions in these processes, we could expect much smoother development of science, I expect.
Professor Eiichi Yamaguchi, Kyoto University, The Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS).
Web site of Prof. Yamaguchi's Laboratory (in English): https://www.gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/staff/yamaguchi/index.html
"Five Physics Theories to Learn Before You Die" (in Japanese), Eiichi Yamaguchi , Chikuma shobo (May,2015), （ISBN 978-4480016003)'Rethinking Innovation' (The Blue LED case and Paradigm Disruptive Innovation), Eiichi Yamaguchi, in "Recovering from Success: Innovation And Technology Management in Japan", edited by R. Cole and D. Hugh Whittaker, Oxford University Press (May 2006)
Figure 2: Innovation process for the Blue Light Emitting Diode. (E. Yamaguchi (2006))'FUKUSHIMA Report (1): Criminal error in TEPCO management of technology and damages given to "Brand Japan" ', Eiichi Yamaguchi and Morinosuke Kawaguchi (Fukushima Project Committee), News Release, Nov. 2011; TRIZ Home Page in Japan
'FUKUSHIMA Report (2): The actual reason why this accident could not have been avoided', Eiichi Yamaguchi, Presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Innovation Strategy (ISIS2012), held on Sept. 11, 2012, at University of Cambridge, UK; TRIZ Home Page in Japan
Thank you for your message.
Your note in the diagram of Mind Map is a nice summary of (the concluding chapter of) the book. You use the Mind Map method very actively!
'Original idea generation' (by Prof. Yamaguchi) is certainly related to 'Concept-driven (revolution of science)' (by Prof. Seryi), I agree. For such a process, there are many (but vague) guiding principles, I think. TRIZ 40 Inventive Principles may be such a representation, and there can be much deeper ways of representation. (Of course there should be many different ways of representing the guidelines, besides TIRZ.) It is not easy to recommend concise and essential representations of the guiding principles.
Thanks and best wishes,
As the process for 'obtaining original ideas', Mr. Takayama quotes from Prof. Eiichi Yamaguchi that 'Induction' is a necessary prerequisite.
The thinking process represented in 'Six-Box Scheme' by Nakagawa argues somewhat more clearly:
It states that the prerequisite is to obtain 'the understanding of the present system and the understanding of the ideal system' (in Box 3) from the 'problem definition' (in Box 2). (Methods for obtaining such understanding are rather well known and more or less standardized.)
The process of obtaining 'Ideas for a new system' (in Box 4) from the understanding of Box 3 is usually called 'Idea generation' or 'Original idea generation'. And various methods, not alone TRIZ, have been proposed for the process. However, most of them try to make short cuts skipping the understanding in Box 3 to reach Box 4.
The essence of the Six-Box Scheme is the discovery that once you fully understand the present system and the ideal system (in Box 3), ideas for a new system (in Box 4) come up to your brain rather smoothly.
'Induction' in Yamaguchi is actually the process of obtaining the information in Box 3, i.e., the understanding of the present system and the understanding of the ideal system, I think.
Dear Toru, Thank you very much for this update (on Nov. 4)!
I would be very interested to hear about ideas that Takayama-san discussed. "Takayama discusses about idea generation in physics, in relation to A. Seryi's Keynote." Would it be possible if you could translate and send a brief summary of Takayama-san's comments?
I would be also very much interested to hear if there was any other feedback/comments (critical OK too) about my talk that was received after publishing the news article about that.
Thank you again. Best regards, Andrei
Thank you for your message. On your request, I have translated the communications between Mr. Takayama and myself into English. And some information related to the discussion is added. All the information is added to the 'Letters from Readers' page and publicly posted in my Web site. (Please see above.)
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