技術と電子機器

Anyone paying attention to the stock market over the past six months will have borne witness to the incredible run up of the...

At the beginning of 2011 The New York Times wrote a piece with a headline “Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan.”

Nowadays, it’s often said that television is a dying medium and that newer, more interactive forms of media are taking its place. This...

When I first came to Japan in the late 1990s, one of the most telling signs of the country’s consumer technology progress versus...

Any of us who experienced the events of March 11, 2011 and their aftermath will understand just how intrinsic social media platforms have...

Two recent high-profile information security breaches — Sony and U.S. marketing firm Epsilon — have once again highlighted the critical importance of information security.

Two recent high-profile data breaches — at Sony Corp. and U.S. marketing firm Epsilon — have once again highlighted the critical importance of information security.

Japan is without a doubt the hottest consumer laboratory in the world for consumer connectivity. Looking at “mobile” subscribers, there are some 69...

One of the hottest product categories this year is that of e-readers, including the explosion of resulting business in the form of the...

Several recently-reported successes from both U.S. and Japanese companies illustrate how rapidly Japanese consumers are adapting to the digital world.

After years of being billed as “the world’s 2nd largest economy,” it appears that 2010 may be the year in which Japan’s economy...

Are we getting to the point where the consumer’s freedom of choice is compromised? The more progressive marketers among us have begun to...