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Office makeovers focus on comfort and productivity as activity-based working takes hold in Japan

Itoki Corp. installed a meditation room fitted with sound and lighting equipment in its office in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. Yoga and lessons for mindfulness and mental fitness are sometimes held there. | MASUMI KOIZUMI

By Masumi Koizumi
Staff Writer

May 2, 2019

The first thing Hiroaki Ninoyu does almost every day when he arrives at work is head to the meditation room.

He begins his half-hour ritual at 7:30 a.m. in a Japanese-style room equipped with soothing sounds and lighting effects.

Thanks to meditation, "I can focus on one thing without being easily distracted," said Ninoyu, the general manager at the Tokyo headquarters of office solutions company Itoki Corp.

Office makeovers focus on comfort and productivity as activity-based working takes hold in Japan

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