MIND

Work hard, be frugal, give everything for others

The spirit of respect for humanity is the company motto of Idemitsu Kosan. Companies are ravaged by war, and all that remains is a huge debt.While many leading companies were cutting staff merely to survive, it seems that Sazo Idemitsu did not flinch from the principle in the company motto of "respect for humanity". When Japan was defeated in the war, he was already 60 years old.After the war, his indomitable spirit created the will in him to reconstruct the company, despite having lost nearly all the company assets, and he fought desperately for the recovery of Japan.It seems that from a young age he was taught “work hard”, “be frugal”, and “give everything for others” by his diligent hard-working father.That image of working desperately for the recovery of Japan is reflected in the way Japanese people lived at that time. LASTMILE WORKS is a company born out of Cambodia, which has its own dark history known as thePol Pot era. I think that developing countries like Cambodia have much to learn from the way the Japanese people lived at that time and from history.