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...
Category: Entrepreneurship
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...
Japan’s Youth Culture: A behind the scenes look at Slush Asia
Beaming down to a remote football pitch sized tract located on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay, a remarkable event...
Japan’s biotech entrepreneur finds entrepreneurial success contagious
He could have taken the safe and easy route to become a clinician. Both his parents and his sister...
Japan’s startup ecosystem gets lift from Silicon Valley’s Hiroshi Menjo
Japan’s startup ecosystem is between 15 and 30 years behind that of Silicon Valley. The lack of infrastructure weighs...
Labor mobility edges forward as lifetime employment gives way to zigzag careers in Japan
Fading prospects for lifetime employment is leading to a little known but important transformation in Japan. Increasingly, employees are...
Extra! Extra! – Smartphone replaces newsprint! Read all about it…
The Internet punched a hole in the newspaper business. Now the industry again is being disrupted by the Smartphone....
How Ex-Line CEO Akira Morikawa broke management convention to build the popular LINE messaging service
The story of how Akira Morikawa adopted an unconventional management style to build the popular LINE mobile messaging service...
Moxie with a proxy
Last April heads turned when Japan’s GPIF announced that it had named activist investor Taiyo Pacific Partners to help...