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On a recent business trip to Singapore I was taken aback when told by someone well connected in the American business community there,...

There’s no polite way of saying it. It seems to me lately that Japan is turning into a nation of cheapskates. But, truth...

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

Top chefs from around the world predicted that vegetables and “fabulous experimental vegetarian food” would catch a wave in 2012, along with the...

At Decks Mall in Tokyo’s Odaiba there is a whole floor devoted to an attraction called Daiba Itchome Shoutengai. That precinct of the...

During the two so-called ‘lost decades’ since the early 1990s, the standard of living of the average Japanese household has been maintained, and...

Even though I’ve lived in Japan for many years now, it was only a few years ago, mainly through having seen him appear...

Ispend a good part of every summer these days in a small Texas Hill Country town, 13,000 some-odd miles from Tokyo. Looking out...

One of the first things that struck me when I came to Japan as a young manager was how difficult it was to...

Perhaps the most important and far-ranging phenomenon to consider when marketing any product or service in Japan is the sheer power represented by...

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...