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Choosing a Personal Fitness Trainer in Japan that Delivers Results
People are living longer than ever before. To maximize present wellness and the quality of those extra years, experts suggest that you stay fit through daily exercise. A personal fitness trainer can help tailor a fitness program to suit your … Continue reading
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End Gym Boredom: Exercise Your Mind
Is boredom your excuse for not exercising regularly? Reading an e-book on the treadmill can remove the boredom experienced by many while exercising. The Kindle, for instance, has a text-to-audio feature that allows one to listen while reading. It automatically … Continue reading
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Kentaro’s Home Run
This is the story of a clear-headed young man who suffered physical paralysis. Notwithstanding becoming quadriplegic at an early age, he was decisively free from the more common ailment known as “decision paralysis”, a neck-up condition that leaves those afflicted … Continue reading
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TEDxTokyo Co-Founder Patrick Newell Explains, “What’s TED?”
As the Bob Dylan song goes − “You know something is happening, but you don’t know what it is….” Most of us have heard about TED. Do we really understand it? Beacon Reports met with thought leader and TEDxTokyo co-founder … Continue reading
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MISSION: POSSIBLE
Learning activist and TEDxTokyo co-founder Patrick Newell is a man with a mission. He believes that many societies, including Japan’s, have raised people with 20th century skills not wholly applicable for the 21st century. Having learned by rote memorization in … Continue reading
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Language Startup Rises to Cloud Nine
Widespread availability of Internet broadband and software innovation are transforming the once stodgy business of language education. Leading the charge in Japan are two Japanese-American brothers, John Hideyoshi Martyn and Billy Kosuke Martyn. The brothers want to reduce the many … Continue reading
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Japan’s Zen Style Boardrooms – How Effective Are They?
Wharton Business School in 2007 published an article comparing the Anglo-American system of corporate governance with that of Japan. In the U.S. and U.K., according to the article, corporate governance is concerned with ensuring that the firm is run in … Continue reading
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Avoiding Medical Surprises in Japan
Understanding how Japanese medical practice differs from that in your home country can be crucial to avoiding unwelcome surprises next time you or a loved one find yourselves in need of treatment at a local clinic or hospital. Without pre-planning, … Continue reading
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Head Up, Not Down to Survive Tsunami
Sitting across from me at a Naka-Meguro pizzeria, Riccardo Tossani pulled out his iPhone to check his Spyglass app. He glanced out the window to survey the adjacent taller buildings, ignoring the cherry blossoms that were in full bloom. “The … Continue reading
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The “Lowe-Down” on English Language Education
No one knows the Asian educational publishing market better than John Lowe. He was recruited by Thomson Publishing (now known as Cengage) in 1994 to head up their newly established English language learning division from Singapore before moving to Tokyo … Continue reading
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