Researchers from South Korea and Greenpeace East Asia recently found microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands they sampled worldwide.
The Japanese certainly earned the image of the wealthiest nation on the planet in the past. During the so-called bubble years, which peaked...
A key Zen truth is that nothing is permanent. Therefore it follows that attachment to transient objects will bring suffering.
I recently sat down with Timothy Connor of Synnovate Consulting regarding his experiences and insights gained from his years in the Japanese consumer...
The Japanese market is rich with opportunity, but it is also full of unique challenges and risks not faced in other international markets.
At the beginning of 2011 The New York Times wrote a piece with a headline “Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan.”
Retailers of all types are having to work harder to attract and hold consumers’ attention in the “real” versus “virtual” worlds, as consumers...
I have been following with interest the prospective launch of Jetstar Japan. Jetstar, a subsidiary of Australia’s flag-carrier Qantas, is widely recognized as...
Nowadays, it’s often said that television is a dying medium and that newer, more interactive forms of media are taking its place. This...
Japan’s population crisis is well documented. In a country with the highest life expectancy in the world and one of the lowest birth...
As negotiations move forward, will Japan be able to muster the political will needed to capitalize on the opportunities that The Trans-Pacific Partnership...
When I first came to Japan in the late 1990s, one of the most telling signs of the country’s consumer technology progress versus...
