About Japanese companies and Japanese business people
What Is Shakuhachi?: The Blue-eyed Shakuhachi Player Who Continues to Create New Musical Instruments

Shakuhachi player and maker John Kaizan Neptune In a house surrounded by bamboo forest in Kamogawa City, which is located in the southeast corner of the Boso Peninsula, Chiba Prefecture, lives a foreigner who unduly suits an outfit of samue robes paired with a tenugui towel. John Kaizan Neptune, who came to Japan 40 years […]

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Japan’s Eco Busines: Saving the Earth and Saving Money

From Solar Panels to Spaghetti Noodles, the Color of Japanese Business Is GREEN By Tom Baker When you get behind the wheel of your car, turn up the air conditioner at home, or pop open a cold drink, are you destroying the environment? Many people worry about the impact of such activities, but most of […]

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What is the Most Popular Sports in Japan?

DO HOUSE conducted a survey of 1,198 people above age 20 at the end of February, in which it asked people which sport they wanted their children to engage in. The three most popular responses were 1) swimming (replied by both sexes); 2) soccer replied by males and martial arts (such as karate, judo, kendo […]

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Live in Japan: Japanese lifestyle and its social culture
If you could be born again, would you still want be married to your present partner?

When the Hakuhodo ad agency asked this question at the end of last year, 50.1% of husbands and 38.5% of wives replied yes, exposing a significant difference in replies between males and females. Interestingly, however, the percentage of responses by childless couples (52%) was nearly 10 points higher than from couples with children (42.9%). The […]

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A Long-term Vision for the Future: A Message for Mankind 5,000 Years from Now by Konosuke Matsushita

Konosuke Matsushita's 250 Year Plan Konosuke Matsushita’s vision didn’t just stop at business management; it extended to government and politics, and even to human happiness. At 37 years of age, Konosuke Matsushita announced a 250-year plan for Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic). He declared that the mission of industrialists was to establish an earthly paradise suffused […]

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Why Do Japanese Like Open Plan Offices?

Why Do Japanese Like Open Plan Offices? Why hasn't telecommuting taken root in Japan, even in the midst of a pandemic? Here is an answer. By R. Kopp For the American coming to work at, or even visiting, a traditional Japanese office, it’s a shock.  Rather than the individual offices or cubicles that are typical […]

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Truth About “Stay Connected” in Japan

Changing Japanese people's behavior i-mode was introduced around 25 years ago. It was the world’s first internet access service exclusive to mobile phones. An early 2000’s research suggests that the average Japanese person had a mobile phone by the time they started middle school. Japan was reportedly the first place with videophone services. So accessing […]

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All About OTAKU: Tokyo Otaku Mode

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Accommodating Muslims in Tokyo, Japan

Shared house only for Muslim people By Ryoji Shimada, staff writer Japan’s first-ever shared house set up exclusively for the Muslim Community has began operations from late February in a posh district of Tokyo. Such a facility is a reflection on Japan’s growing diversity. According to the Japan Muslim Association, currently about 10,000 Japanese Muslims […]

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Can Japan Overcome the Innovation Dilemma?

What should we learn from Steve Jobs and Sony’s Akio Morita? By K. Ohno Interview with Clayton Christensen Clayton M. Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business School. He holds a BA with highest honors in economics at Brigham Young University, an MBA at the Harvard Business School, and a DBA at the Harvard […]

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