The Judoka (Judo Fighter)
Most Westerners come to Japan on short-term assignment. They stay two or three years, then leave. Few make Japan...
Category: Entrepreneurship
Outgoing chairman credited for Mitsubishi Fuso turnaround
On arrival at Narita airport in 2009, the incoming chief executive of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., Dr. Albert...
Enough already! Why Japan needs no more venture capital…
The yearly total investment available to startups in Japan, about $2bn, is dwarfed by the US’s $60bn. Yet, Tokyo...
Follow Japan’s thought leaders
Isolated from the West in 1635 by the Tokugawa shogunate, the culture of modern-day Japan remains in part a...
University Challenge — Can Todai ‘make hay’ with Japan Inc?
Universities in Japan generate more jointly-held patents through collaborative research with big business than do universities in all other...
Low cost foreign currency exchange comes to Japan
Peer-to-Peer foreign currency exchange TransferWise is rolling out in Japan in September. The firm, which recently became a $1.1bn...
Creative entrepreneurship in Japan
Many Japanese entrepreneurs clone businesses whose concepts are already proven somewhere else. However, it is the rare creative entrepreneur...
The dawn of turbocharged language learning
For decades marketing firms have promised speedy if not effortless ways to learn a second language. None have worked...
Adaptive language learning at the starting gate
Cooori is not the only rally car competing in the race to personalize language learning. Notable other firms include Duolingo, Babbel,...
Japan’s mobile game industry is poised for consolidation
In May 2013 a Vietnamese game developer named Dong Nguyen shot to fame when a simple app he produced...