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| Global Spotlight focuses on employees
from the Mitsubishi Companies, who are excelling in their respective fields
around the world. In each issue we will get to know different employees, who
will tell us about their hometowns, businesses, culture, and pastimes. |
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The Netherlands, or Holland, is a small country in Western
Europe with 16 million citizens. It is best known for its
tulips, windmills, clumps (a modern pump-style clog) and
is sometimes still mentioned in geography books at school because of its long history as a seafaring nation.
Maybe that’s why it was logical that Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha decided in 1995 to establish a local company
in Holland for promoting the Mitsubishi Oil Purifier in Europe, because the equipment is mainly used in the
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The Mitsubishi purifier, also called the Mitsubishi
Selfjector, is a vertical centrifuge which removes
water and contaminants from engine lubricants
and fuels. Our company can supply main purifier
components, spare parts and also provide the aftersales
services which earn the full satisfaction of our
European customers. All services are rendered in
co-operation with our European agents.
Our team of six staff members comprises three
Japanese, two Dutch and one Sri Lankan. Three
different cultures, three different languages, but one common target: to make sure our customers can rely on
us for our comprehensive and effective range of services. |
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My position in the company is engineer in the after-sales service department, and my work includes onthe-
spot repairs, commissioning of newly delivered machinery, providing distance technical advice using all
types of modern communication channels or training potential operators at our training unit located at our
office in Amstelveen near Amsterdam, the famous capital of Holland.
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During an eight-year period as an officer in the merchant navy and
serving as an engineer in a cruise company, I explored the world
and all the maritime and technical facets related to it as a seaman.
Of course a career is important but over the years I have
realized that my family and private life are also important. Working
for MKK Europe B.V. as an engineer is for me the perfect combination of a technically challenging job performed mainly in mainland Europe and a social life for me
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In January 2012, I became the proud father of a beautiful daughter. So I will spend most of
my time at weekends and during holidays with my daughter and my wife in Haarlem, a beautiful city close to
Amsterdam with lots of historical attractions.
If you are in the position to visit Holland and you do not find me in Haarlem, the big change is that I am now
training for my favorite sport: rowing with eight people in an old type of rescue boat. It’s definitely important
for me to continue exercising and training because we enter big race events in Holland. We row along the
channels of Amsterdam, past windmills and fields of tulips — but see them from the water instead. This just
goes to show that a seaman prefers to stay on the water! |
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| Guam, a territory of the United States of America,
is the home of Tokio Marine Pacific Insurance (TMPI). Guam is an island located in the western Pacific that
lies about 2500 km south of Tokyo, Japan, and about 2600 km east of Manila, in the Philippines. Guam
has a population of about 156,000 people and covers an area of 549 km2. It is truly tropical, with mean
temperatures ranging from 24°C to 30°C. We have beautiful sandy beaches with clean clear water, providing
many ocean recreation activities, including some of the best snorkeling and scuba diving available anywhere! |
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We also have world-class golf courses, tennis facilities, and many
walking and running events.
Guam has become a major tourist destination for Japan.
Other visitors come from Korea, China and Russia. Guam is also
a duty-free port making for incredible shopping from world-class
retailers, such as Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and others.
Tokio Marine has been in Guam since 1968 when we first offered standard property and casualty insurance to our customers. TMPI is the largest insurance carrier in the |
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region, based on Gross Written Premium (GWP). We operate on Guam and on Saipan where our operations
include providing group health insurance and
standard property and casualty insurance.
| The majority of our actual business operations is
handled by three very important Managing General
Agents. One manages our health insurance
program throughout the region, a second handles
our property and casualty operations on Guam, and the third handles our property and casualty operations
on Saipan. This arrangement allows TMPI to have a lean and efficient operation with just 17 employees, which
includes six members of our highly motivated property and casualty Claims Service Department. |
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| My name is Brion Kanda. I became TMPI’s Chief
Underwriting Officer for Property and Casualty
Insurance in 2009, following many years in the
insurance industry in Guam and Hawaii. When I
started with TMPI, we employed nine people. Our
staff nearly doubled in size in less than three years
reflecting the growth of our operation in Micronesia
and the wonderful career opportunities that the
Tokio Marine Group has offered to us. |
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| Despite this recent growth, our staff is small enough for us to develop a familylike
atmosphere within the office as we fulfill our responsibilities in a happy and pleasant
work environment. We try to enhance our personal relationships with frequent staff
luncheons together, golf outings, a company picnic and year-end celebrations.
I consider myself to be very fortunate to work with one of the largest and most
successful insurance organizations in the world while living in this tropical island paradise
of Guam! |
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