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- Industry group suggests a delay in recruitment of Japanese college grads
- November 18th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- You might have come across this news previously in the Japanese press, but an industry association of Japanese trading firms has this week urged the business community to delay recruiting activities targeting university students due to graduate next spring. The Japan ... » Continue Reading
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- (Saving Japan) The Effects of a Frugal Japanese Society
- November 15th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- After the burst of the asset price bubble in the early 1990s and the prolonged recession that followed, Japan has evolved into a post-consumerist country disinterested in luxury goods. One doesn’t have to look far to find evidence of this renewed sense of frugality. ... » Continue Reading
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- 1 in 10 Japanese firms headed by woman
- November 10th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- It is not just maid trains that employ Japan's female population as a recent survey by a credit ratings agency found that one in every 10 companies in Japan has a lady president. Tokyo Shoko Research said it conducted a survey on 2.09 million companies of all scales ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreign Businesses in Japan: Soup of the day
- November 10th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- As soon as you walk into the offices of Campbell Japan Inc, you face an array of colorful soup cans, packets of Pepperidge Farm cookies, Tim Tams and V8 vegetable juice. But soup is what the company is famous for worldwide. Excluding miso soup, Japan’s soup market is ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan Inc. investing big in electric cars
- November 9th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- Tesla Motors is a hot start-up company based in Silicon Valley that is fast catching the eye of those tracking the future of the automobile industry. The company designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and is most famous for its Roadster. Tesla has caught the ... » Continue Reading
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- A Hooter here and a Hooter there
- October 25th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- Japan’s first Hooters restaurant and sports bar opens at Tokyu Plaza by Akasakamitsuke subway station on Monday night. It has taken nearly five years of negotiations between Hooters Japan and the company’s head office in Atlanta to bring the famous franchise to Japan. ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreign Entrepreneurs: Ascendant on the rise
- October 19th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- No matter how tough the economy is, companies still need to manage their back office functions - such as accounting, finance, HR, payroll and taxes – which means there is always a demand for companies such as Ascendant Business Solutions. Established in 1995, Ascendan ... » Continue Reading
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- In Japan, the customer is not king
- October 14th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- In Japan, “The customer is God” is a common customer service phrase drilled into waiters and waitresses and presented in just about every training session given to a new employee. On the surface, this seems to result in great customer service that is the talking point ... » 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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- 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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