by carterjmrn | Mar 26, 2016 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Food and Lifestyle
One aspect of Japanese leisure culture to which nearly every visitor to Japan is exposed is the ubiquitous practice of karaoke — the practice of singing popular songs with recorded background music — usually involving copious libations and a modicum of...
by carterjmrn | Mar 24, 2016 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Gaming, Leisure and Entertainment
She has over 170,000 uploaded YouTube videos, 1,000,000created artworks and 100,000 original songs under her name, some of which have been topkaraoke picks in Japan for several years in a row. She has 2,3mn (and growing!)followers on Facebook — more than any...
by carterjmrn | Oct 16, 2015 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
Anyone paying attention to the stock market over the past six months will have borne witness to the incredible run up of the price of electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors, Inc. Back in March the stock was trading in the mid thirties, but had reached almost $170 by...
by carterjmrn | Sep 16, 2015 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
Many a time, it has been said that Japan likes to do things its own way. And nowhere is this truer than in the music business. In the past decade in Western markets we have witnessed an almost complete transformation in the landscape of the music industry. Starting...
by carterjmrn | Jul 10, 2014 | Carter Group Viewpoints
Having spent the past 28 years observing the Japanese market and its trials and tribulations, I am always amused by the “is Japan back” question, which I have heard on a number of occasions over the years. Did anyone really ever think that Japan had gone “somewhere...
