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- High hopes for Haneda’s new international terminal
- October 12th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- When Haneda Airport’s new international terminal and fourth runway opens on Oct 21, government officials hope this will be the first step toward Japan having a 24-hour airport hub to compete with other Asian airports. Amid the current recession, the stakes are enormou ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreign Entrepreneurs: Presenting the big picture
- October 12th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- Big events these days are incomplete unless there is a big screen at the venue showing activities, interviews and trendy people. One company that is increasingly in demand is Wedovideo, which creates multimedia and audiovisual contents with high artistic highlight for ... » Continue Reading
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- English Teachers in Japan
- October 8th, 2010Category: Teaching in Japan
- English Teachers, a new web TV show, is a series of films showing the lighter side of life as an English teacher in Japan. The series follows Japan newbie Tom as he finds his feet, learns the norms and gets to grips with life in an eikaiwa. The series can best be desc ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan looking to sell it’s ‘smart’ cities to the world
- October 8th, 2010Category: Events
- We covered the opening of Ceatec, Japan's consumer electronics show, where there were gadgets and robots galore on display (some brilliant coverage here by Akihabara News). But one of the biggest attractions wasn’t anything you could touch — an energy efficient city ... » Continue Reading
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- Domino’s Pizza Japan
- October 7th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Domino’s Pizza Japan has just launched an all-English website to mark its 25th anniversary of doing business in Japan and (of course) to help folks living here get their hands on pizza without navigating Japanese menus. On the website (http://www.dominos.jp/eng/), you ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese comic beer
- October 6th, 2010Category: Culture
- Japan Trends first spotted this in a downtown Tokyo supermarket, a beer that combines Japan's love of drinking with another of the country's great passions, manga. As the consumer site notes, the Sapporo black-label branded beer has been released before in southern J ... » Continue Reading
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- Cheap Shopping in Japan
- October 5th, 2010Category: Shopping
- Flash buying has taken off in a big way elsewhere around the world and Japan has been quick to import the service, with several sites offering local variations on the 'one-deal-per-day' concept. For those not familiar, essentially a-deal-a-day site dedicates its top ... » Continue Reading
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- CEATEC 2010 electronics show opens
- October 5th, 2010Category: Events
- Japan’s major information technology and electronics fair CEATEC opened today, featuring displays on the next-generation ‘‘smart grid’’ power transmission network and a wide lineup of products using 3d tech. Officially, a total of 616 companies and groups, of which 1 ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreigners in Business: The Lyon’s share of office furniture
- October 4th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- If you work in a modern state-of-the art office of a multinational company in Tokyo, the chances are you are sitting in a Herman Miller chair or working at a Herman Miller desk. Long regarded as innovative and design-oriented, Herman Miller goes way beyond great chair ... » Continue Reading
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- International Business networking event: After 7 is back!
- October 1st, 2010Category: Networking Events
- After 7, a networking event that brings together the managers, executives, CEOs and professionals who make up the international business community in Japan, is back. Spaces are now available but expect them to go fast. Read on and if the event sounds right for you, ... » Continue Reading