Social Media Monitoring

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.

In the autumn of last year I reflected upon the extraordinary summer heat we had experienced, and the effect of seasonality upon near-term...

At the beginning of this year, I predicted a “perfect marketing storm” in terms of the rapid evolution of both sales/distribution channels and...

I am filled with hope as I watch literally everyone I know scrambling to find ways to contribute to the rebuilding of the...

On March 13th, 2011, I sorrowfully opened a folder on my laptop called “earthquake.” One week later, it is as full of documents,...

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

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

I’ve always chuckled at the way Japan seems to think it is the only place in the world that actually has “4 seasons,”...

Not dissimilar to the dramatic redrawing of retail distribution in the 90s, during which time we saw the advent of outlet malls and...

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...

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