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According to the 2019 Global Wellness Report, the wellness industry is one of the fastest growing global industries projected to harness 500 trillion...

You may have heard that the Japanese market, despite being the third biggest economy in the world, is past its prime. But with a...

Dominic Carter of The Carter Group, a market research and strategic consulting firm based in Tokyo, is a specialist in understanding consumers. Throughout...

You can knock on the doors of millions of residences in Japan 24/7—especially out in the countryside—and get no answer.

Growing up, I remember reading in Time Magazine about how Vegas was going to become family-friendly in the mid-90s by building shopping areas, attractions...

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

The so-called “seniors’” market continues to inspire innovative products and services that materialize in ways which far surpass the common theme of robotic...

Whenever you read anything about demography in Japan the greying baby boomers come up time and again as being the key distinctive cohort.

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

Coming from a land of suburban castles, it’s sometimes a little surprising for Americans to see the relative lack of focus Japanese place...