by carterjmrn | Nov 24, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints
At the beginning of 2011 The New York Times wrote a piece with a headline “Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan.” At the time, it seemed like Facebook had failed to ignite anything like the kind of addictive behaviour it had everywhere else in the developed...
by carterjmrn | Nov 19, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Food and Lifestyle
Top chefs from around the world predicted that vegetables and “fabulous experimental vegetarian food” would catch a wave in 2012, along with the use of pure and natural ingredients from ethically produced, sustainable farming. The uptake on this trend in Tokyo...
by carterjmrn | Oct 21, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Society and Culture
At Decks Mall in Tokyo’s Odaiba there is a whole floor devoted to an attraction called Daiba Itchome Shoutengai. That precinct of the shopping centre is a self-contained step back in time to the urban Japan of the sixties. The place is bursting with candy, trinkets,...
by carterjmrn | Oct 1, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Society and Culture
During the two so-called ‘lost decades’ since the early 1990s, the standard of living of the average Japanese household has been maintained, and on some counts, has even increased somewhat. Japan performs favorably on several measures of well-being, and ranks close to...
by carterjmrn | Sep 21, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Society and Culture
Even though I’ve lived in Japan for many years now, it was only a few years ago, mainly through having seen him appear on an especially creative television campaign for Sony, that I became aware of the existence of a rock star named Eikichi Yazawa. Afterwards, I...
