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- Foreigners in Business: Conducting Japan
- January 31st, 2011Category: Culture, Starting a Business, Work Tips
- Many people often forget that orchestras are a business like any other, and are just as subject to the rules of the marketplace. When the Lehman Shock hit Japan in late 2008, many orchestras lost a lot of sponsors. Others, however, have weathered the hard times becaus ... » Continue Reading
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- 10 easy steps to create a successful company in Japan
- January 25th, 2011Category: Starting a Business
- The British co-founder of popular Tokyo-based tech startup company myGengo has recently shared his thoughts on how to be successful when launching a company in Japan as a foreigner. His pointers, some of which appear obvious but are still overlooked a surprising amou ... » Continue Reading
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- (Saving Japan) Japan’s Current Trade Fiasco
- December 15th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- A recent article by the Wall Street Journal investigates Japan's inability to sign off on potentially lucrative FTAs. The main reason? Farmers. The author of the article points to the disproportionate amount of power farmers and special interests groups in Japan wie ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreigners in business: Exporting fresh Japanese food by air
- September 28th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- We often take a look at foreign residents who have started their own businesses in Japan, branching out on their own. This story is of an Indian entrepreneur, who has launched a business to air freight Japanese vegetables and fish to other parts of Asia, keeping the ... » Continue Reading
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- Time for Japan to internationalize?
- July 26th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- Of the two 'lost-decades' that Japan has experienced since the bursting of its economic bubble, there have been few economic success stories. Sure, new products from the likes of Sony or Toyota have been big hits, but since 1991 new and original companies have been f ... » Continue Reading
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- Are you the next CEO of Softbank?
- July 15th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- Two nights ago Softbank held an online webcast introducing their vision for the next 30 years and reviewing their progress over the previous decades. The company was one of the first to invest in Yahoo.com before the dot com boom, then took the Yahoo! Brand to Japan an ... » Continue Reading
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- Salaries in Japan
- July 5th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- Under new government requirements, aimed at boosting corporate openness, Japanese listed companies now have to disclose the pay of executives who received 100 million yen ($1 million) or more as part of their year-end of financial year AGMs. In FY2010 the highe ... » Continue Reading
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- English Speaking Japanese Companies
- June 30th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- The company behind fashion brand Uniqlo, Fast Retailing Co., is making English the “official language” among its management and head office staff from March 2012. The company is also putting an emphasis on those with foreign experience among it's new recruits. Fast ... » Continue Reading
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- The Senbei Cafe
- June 9th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- This is Takako Endo (遠藤 貴子) – the lady entrepreneur behind a new food brand, Twhy Twhy. Tokyoite Takako has just launched the new website – www.senbeicafe.com – from which she sells senbei (rice crackers) in a variety of cool and unusual flavors. For example, visit th ... » Continue Reading
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- On Self Publishing in Japan…
- May 19th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- I was recently contacted by the Hall Houston, the author of Provoking Thought to contribute a piece to his blog A teacher in Taoyuan about my experiences as a self-published ELT author. The content of that piece is as follows. For those of you working in the ELT industr ... » Continue Reading
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