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- Foreigners in business: Amway Japan
- June 13th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- The direct selling industry in Japan has had a mixed reputation over the years, but companies like Amway have put a lot of effort into enhancing their image and becoming a better partner for both their distributors and consumers. Headquartered in Michigan, Amway, w ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreigners in business: Foreign Buyers’ Club
- June 6th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- When American Chuck Grafft and his wife Kelly started a co-op in the late 1980s to import items that they and their friends in the foreign community missed most from home (bagels, breakfast cereal and peanut butter), they probably had no idea that more than 20 years l ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreigners in business: Starbucks
- May 30th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- When Starbucks opened its first store in Japan in Ginza in the summer of 1996, it redefined the coffee-drinking culture in Japan. The Seattle-based company now has 920 stores in Japan and is on track to open another 50 by the end of this year. In Japan, Starbucks (wh ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreigners in business: Good PR
- May 25th, 2011Category: Starting a Business, Work Tips
- For so long in Japan, whenever a company was confronted with a crisis, the CEO or president would apologize and bow deeply at a press conference…and that was about it. That no longer works, as we are seeing in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster. Having a crisis ma ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreigners in business: The Domino effect
- May 16th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- Last Sept 30, to mark its 25th anniversary in Japan, Domino’s Pizza launched an English website (http://www.dominos.jp/eng/) on which you can order everything from pizzas and pasta to hot subs and side dishes. As an extra bonus, the website featured a number of spe ... » Continue Reading
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- Some Things Needed When Incorporating in Japan
- May 16th, 2011Category: Starting a Business
- Much has been written about the types of companies one can incorporate in Japan, the kabushiki kaisha, the godo kaisha, and the bureaucratic processes involved in incorporating a company. While there are a lot of useful factual sources, there seems to be less informati ... » Continue Reading
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- Respect and embrace differences: An educator’s lesson
- May 9th, 2011Category: Teaching in Japan
- On the second and third floors of a small building in Azabu-Juban in Tokyo, there is a preschool that offers children more than studying: it offers them a home away from home, where learning about respecting differences and appreciating others comes before the ABCs ... » Continue Reading
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- Mike Rogers, President of Universal Vision Japan
- May 9th, 2011Category: Work Tips
- Making a successful living in Japan as a foreigner is certainly no easy task. Foreigners working for Japanese firms oftentimes hit glass ceilings and leave out of frustration. Others, perturbed by the difficulty of the language and of the customs of the people, are un ... » Continue Reading
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- Aiming for sustainability
- April 25th, 2011Category: Starting a Business
- Earth Hour came and went on March 26. Now what? Green consumers today don’t just think about green, they think about jobs, and love, and family, and travel, and fun etc. It’s about living a good life that also happens to be good for others, and our planet. Today, mor ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese game market hit hard
- April 21st, 2011Category: Arts & Entertainment, Work Tips
- With the official endorsement for public restraint now being removed, markets are starting to fire back into action and Tokyo consumers are once again being welcomed with open arms into the city`s shops. However, the past month and a half have been a tough time for a ... » Continue Reading
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