Pioneering New Age Public Services
The year is 2026… The Bank of Japan finally hit its 2% inflation rate target this year, after years...
Category: Entrepreneurship
A hero’s journey
Joseph Campbell wrote about mythical stories transcending time and culture. Often, he noted, the stories follow a familiar pattern....
IDEO’s Tom Kelley shares his dream to dial up entrepreneurship in Japan
First published by The Japan Times A little wave of euphoria often overwhelms Tom Kelley, while sitting at a...
Looking overseas to solve Japan’s labor shortage
First published by The Japan Times Entrepreneur Misa Matsuzaki likes a good business challenge. The youngest female entrepreneur to...
Panasonic makes game-changing efforts to innovate
The gray-walled silent corridors were ominously foreboding. I had come to visit the man tasked with jump-starting creative innovation at...
Keep Climbing!
One voice stood out amid the cacophony of Slush Tokyo 2019, the annual tech event which now defines Tokyo’s...
Japanese youth reshaping the future of big business
Last year Panasonic Corporation asked Tokyo based Loftwork Inc. to help them build a café in a trendy part of...
Investing in the young, the fast and the furious
Bright, handsome, outspoken, tech savvy and most of all—young, Mike Eidlin ticks all the right boxes for becoming the...
How to build the perfect China business
What do Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon and Uber have in common? Each has failed in China. Being successful in...
How to unleash Japan’s animal spirits
First published by The Japan Times Japan owes its wide middle class to post-war laborers who selflessly worked for...