Job Description for Director of Operations. One of the major responsibilities of a director of operations is employee management, making sure as many as hundreds of individuals are productive. Directors of operations also may be in charge of making purchases related to production. Research and development are also typically overseen by a director of operations.
Shinto means the way of the gods (to means the way.) Its beginning in Japanese culture is lost in the mist of time, certainly going back into prehistory.
Samurai sword history is roughly divided into four main time periods-Koto (the old sword period, pre 1596), Shinto/Shinshinto (1597 to 1876) Gendai (1877 to the end of world war II) and Shinsaku (modern).