by carterjmrn | Jun 20, 2019 | Society and Culture, Women Power
When an 18-year old Osaka student filed a $19,000 lawsuit against the Osaka Prefectural Government because her school insisted that she dye her natural brown hair black, the responding social media buzz revealed a Japan knocking on the door of change. Even though the...
by carterjmrn | Jun 18, 2019 | Changing World of Work, Japan Mega Trends, Women Power
Before 1985, you could hardly find a Japanese woman in business doing anything more than “office lady” activities: tea serving, copy making, paper filing, etc. As a foreign manager back in the day, I was told not to give them anything outside of that, since they were...
by carterjmrn | Jun 13, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Society and Culture, Uncategorized
The LGBT community of Japan may go somewhat unnoticed by the general public, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been making waves in the media. When Liberal Democratic Party member Mio Sugita called homosexual couples “unproductive” and questioned whether it was...
by carterjmrn | Jun 11, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Society and Culture
Whether you call it solo katsu, the super-solo life or ohitorisama (“doing things on your own”), living single is big in Japan. I’m not talking only about so-called parasite singles, either—I mean fully independent individuals who are putting a mostly...
by carterjmrn | Jun 7, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
It was already in 2010 when JMRN pointed out that Japan’s online retail market had increased by 17% annually since 2005, At that time, Japanese consumers were more hesitant than the rest of the world to embrace e-commerce. Japan’s online retail market was projected to...
