Tag Japanese society

Carter Group Viewpoints

Japan’s Growing Lone-Wolf Tribe of Forever Singles

Whether you call it solo katsu, the super-solo life or ohitorisama (“doing things on your own”), living single is big in Japan.

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Dark Days Could Lead to Dawn of Japanese Entrepreneurship

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, or GEM has pointed out that in “2000–2009, Japan recorded one of the lowest rates of entrepreneurial activity amongst the world’s leading nations.”

Carter Group Viewpoints

Grass Eaters

It was back in 2006 that columnist, Maki Fukusawa, alerted us to the possibility that Japan’s fabled salarymen were mutating into something rather more touchy-feely.

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Japan As a Post-Branding Society?

In a 1988 work entitled Postmodernism and Japan,[i] the authors make the interesting hypothesis that what is “postmodern” in the West has existed in Japan in a number of manifestations extending back to what European and American historians term the ‘early modern period’.

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SŌshoku Danshi

Walking up and down the streets of Shibuya on a Saturday afternoon, Yuuji Morimoto was surprised at what he saw. Things seemed quite different to the way they were 5 years ago when he left Japan to attend university in the United States.