Founded in the ruins of 1949, Ikigai Global Industries was built on a conviction our founder carried from an older world: that a person without a code is a person without a purpose. The Bushido Code is not company policy. Policy can be amended. The Code cannot.
Every Ikigai employee recites the tenets at the opening of each working day. Most come to recite them in their sleep.
There is a correct action in every moment, and it is rarely the comfortable one. An Ikigai employee does not ask whether a standard is reasonable. They ask only whether they have met it.
Fear of failure is natural. Acting despite it is mandatory. We ask our people to attempt what their previous employers called impossible, and we do not accept the previous employers' vocabulary.
Strength without compassion is brutality. Ikigai provides for its people completely: nourishment, rest facilities, purpose. Nothing outside these walls need ever call them away.
Courtesy is the visible form of discipline. We bow to our colleagues, our clients, and our work. Seniority is honored without question, for the senior have given the most.
A spoken commitment at Ikigai is a completed one; the interval between the two is merely labor. We do not use contracts among ourselves. To require one would be an insult.
Every employee carries the company's name, and the company carries theirs. Personal failure is corporate failure. There is no private conduct. There is only conduct.
The final tenet, and the greatest. Loyalty is not measured in years of service but in what one is prepared to surrender. Those who understand this tenet completely never need to read it again.
"The sword is gone. The blade remains."— Founder's inscription, Tokyo headquarters lobby