This proverb teaches us that a small leak can sink a great ship or in other words, even small faults, if left unattended, can have very serious consequences. I would be listing a few of the proverbs and idioms which i have come across at work or online, of which a few may be useful to anyone in general or to those working in a Japanese environment and the remaining few may serve as a motivation factor. The above advertisement tries to tell us that, similar to the small fishes coming together to outwit the huge one, even in the business world if every employee of an organization works towards a common goal and shares necessary information accordingly, an extraordinary outcome can be expected. This is the complete idiom of the one liner mentioned above. “Unity is strength, division is weakness” As per a strip of online article shown below, the difference between kotowaza and kanyouku is very little and hard to distinguish. Another word which is close to the word kotowaza is idiom/kanyouku(慣用句). The Japanese word for proverb is kotowaza(ことわざ). This time the point of focus in the advertisement is a one liner/idiom「#まとまると強い」 which focuses on improving workplace efficiency through team work.The advertiser here is advertising about the new cloud service they provide, which can be used by enterprises to integrate all their business applications onto a single cloud platform. Another blog post idea picked from a Tokyo metro advertisement.
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