• 1 in 10 Japanese firms headed by woman
    November 10th, 2010By Category: 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, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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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    ETJ Expos for English teachers in Japan (Updated)
    November 5th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    From October to early December, English teachers from all kinds of teaching environments will gather at the ETJ (English Teachers in Japan) Expos. This is the ninth year the Expos have been held, and they have become an essential event to attend for English teachers f ... » Continue Reading
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    NO Experience Necessary – A guide for new English teachers
    November 2nd, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    NO Experience Necessary is a timely ebook guide for the new teacher heading overseas for the first time, providing useful guidance and advice on how to teach and facilitate an EFL class, and helps individuals to avoid making the mistakes that new teachers commonly do ... » Continue Reading
  • A Hooter here and a Hooter there
    October 25th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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
  • Foreign Entrepreneurs: Ascendant on the rise
    October 19th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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
  • Japanese infants understand sounds based on native language by 14 months
    October 15th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    Ever wondered why it can be hard to teach English to Japanese children? A new study has found that Japanese infants, by the time they are 14 months old, are believed to have tuned their perception to how sounds are sequenced in their native language even before learni ... » Continue Reading
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    In Japan, the customer is not king
    October 14th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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
  • Foreign Entrepreneurs: Presenting the big picture
    October 12th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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
  • Foreigners in Business: The Lyon’s share of office furniture
    October 4th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    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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