199 Posts Found

This is a site by the man behind the WWWJDIC, which you can read all about here. He also has good stuff about ukiyo-e and lots of interesting links (many duplicated on this site).

Source: Jim Breen | Subject: Comprehensive

Article looks at how poor utilization of credit cards and the arcane infrastructure in place to support them are hurting online sales in Japan.

Source: BusinessWeek / Ken Belson | Subject: Business / Economy

Atlantic Monthly article argues that behind Japan’s economic woes is a worse social crisis; discusses the idea of ethno-economics.

Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: Business / Economy

Web entrepreneurs are out to win on a global scale–and bring profound change to Japan’s business culture.

Source: BusinessWeek / Irene M. Kunii | Subject: Business / Economy

A site for expats all over the world, including Japan. Find cost-of-living info, tips, etc.

Source: HR International | Subject: Expat Life

This essay talks about need for business model innovation to stay competitve, gives a few examples, sites some references of value and offers three broad ways to benchark your thinking to others who have innovated successfully

Editor’s Note: I include this article because it makes brief mention of the Japanese Hoshin system of focusing breakthroughs on two pieces of the business while incrementally improving all … [ Read more ]

Source: EIA Trendscope | Subject: Business / Economy

JICS provides services to foreign-based companies entering and doing business in the Japanese market. This site also offers some useful information for free. Major site headings include: Market Research (info about the Japanese online market); Localization (multiple case studies focused on key issues regarding doing business and communicating with the Japanese); Advertising (offers overview of 7 different methods); Multimedia; and eBusiness (look for the downloadable … [ Read more ]

Source: JICS | Subject: Business / Economy

Japanese Jobs is an Internet based employment service that is dedicated to bringing a global community of bilingual professionals who speak Japanese and English together with hiring companies.

Source: Japanese Jobs | Subject: Employment / Career

Hiroshi Mikitani’s Rakuten cybermall is growing at Net speed.

Source: BusinessWeek / Irene M. Kunii | Subject: Business / Economy

Established in 1997, Asia-Net has been serving Asia/Pacific-Rim business communities by helping professionals locate job opportunities, while providing companies the premier on-line recruitment service.

The Asia-Net community comprises over 140,000 professionals with unique ties to Asia, i.c., Asian nationals, people of Asian heritage (including first, second, and third generation Asian Americans), and others with professional interests in Asia/Pacific-Rim.

Source: Japanese Jobs | Subject: Employment / Career

This article examines the new M&A wave involving foreign investors in Japan. Makes some interesting predictions and offers some useful statistics and analysis. We’ll see how it unfolds going forward.

Source: BusinessWeek / Robert Neff | Subject: Business / Economy

Claims to be the premier diversity job destination for bilingual career professionals. From translation and localization engineers to technology and service staff, they claim to be the top choice of leading employers worldwide.

Source: Bilingual-Jobs | Subject: Employment / Career

Article discusses Toshifumi Suzuki, CEO of Seven-Eleven Japan, and his plan to turn his ubiquitous stores into a center for all kinds of commerce. Also offers some interesting background info and statistics.

Source: BusinessWeek / Irene M. Kunii | Subject: Business / Economy

The world’s largest (17k+ unique visitors/month to the website alone) and most comprehensive (100+ positions/issue) jobs-in-Japan magazine. Now in its eleventh year of twice-monthly publication, the free electronic newsletter O-Hayo Sensei reports the best currently available teaching (and other English language-related) positions at conversation schools, universities, jukus, colleges, public schools and companies all across Japan.

Source: O-Hayo Sensei | Subjects: Employment / Career, Teaching English

Fujio Masuoka says that Toshiba tried to demote him after he invented a $76 billion product. The loss was America’s gain. Will Japan make the same mistake with the next innovation?

Source: Forbes / Benjamin Fulford | Subject: Business / Economy

findateacher.Net helps foreign language teachers and students find each other directly anywhere in Japan without having to go to a language school. Teacher sign-up is free. findateacher.Net was made for teachers by teachers and is NOT a language school. Rather, it is a nationwide network of private teachers who run thier own classes or schools. Teachers are not obligated to make a contract with findateacher.Net … [ Read more ]

Source: FindaTeacher.Net | Subjects: Employment / Career, Teaching English

This excellent piece looks at Japan’s Keiretsu system – definitions, history, purposes, structure and future. If you don’t know much about the Keiretsu system, this is the article to read.

Source: Japan Economic Institute / Douglas Ostrom | Subject: Business / Economy

You can no longer safely shrug off Japan’s economic crisis. It just might drag the world into a depression.

Sources: Benjamin Fulford, Forbes Global | Subject: Business / Economy

Strategist Michael Porter tells why Japan’s economic sun has set, and how it can rise again.

Source: CFO.com / Edward Teach | Subject: Business / Economy

“Japan’s extraordinary postwar industrial success was defined by lean production, consensus and continuous improvement. But lately it has been the country’s perceived weak points, such as lifetime employment and over-regulation, that have come to the forefront of the debate on Japanese management. But new ideas are emerging with the younger, more flexible generation of Japanese managers, which means there will still be plenty for the … [ Read more ]

Source: strategy+business / John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge | Subject: Business / Economy