In recent years, the international competitiveness of Japanese enterprises has become stronger and stronger; in particular, the operation of the Toyota Production System (TPS) has been the subject of intense interest by a wide range of people. Therefore, this paper probes into the new tendencies which may be emerging in Japanese knowledge management. From the result of this study, this paper discerns two new orientations in Japanese knowledge management, namely, ”Humanism” and ”Genbaism”. Humanism knowledge management advocates the Toyota management philosophy, which emphasizes and is concerned about what is known as ”sticky knowledge”, a kind of knowledge which is difficult to imitate and transfer. It is a favorable way of improving the probability of successfully learning or adopting Toyo ta's management through realizing and grasping knowledge stickiness and the related methods of knowledge transfer, as well as drafting some advance plans for the avoidance of possible obstacles.