Salesforce.com--a primer on cracking the Japanese CRM market:
while the CRM majors see their market share declining, a once igno
Salesforce.com started its Japan operation in April 2000, amidst
predictions from the experts that Japanese Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs) would never use a third-party ASP to automate their . . .
Online vendors beware! Website content subject to lawsuits in
foreign countries.
Sato slippers, a small family-owned shop located in Niigata,
started offering its products over the Internet last year. The Satos
hoped to use the website to expand their market within Japan, but . . .
Casting our nets too wide: should tuna farming practices be more
strictly regulated?
An early morning trip to the famous Tsukiji fish market is a
standard part of any tourist's visit to Tokyo. This market has been
an integral part of Japan's identity for decades and was . . .
Ibaraki's high-tech treasures: prefecture's hidden gems
get easier to discover.
Some of Japan's most exciting innovations in advanced
technology happen quietly in a prefecture just beyond the hustle and
bustle of the capital. Tokyo tends to overshadow this prefecture of
almost . . .
Office landlords back on top as vacancy falls in central
Tokyo.
Much has changed in the office market since early 2003, when the
market was flooded with new Grade A office supply, and tenants were
offered favorable rents and enticing concessions. Today many . . .
KCS: the "alternative" investor; From pachinko parlors
to a high school for dropouts, 59-year-old Akira Fujii is redefining the
Akira Fujii had been with Mitsui Bank for more than 28 years when
one morning in 1995 he was told he and some other senior managers would
be transferred to a subsidiary. The new position, he felt, . . .
Corporate e-learning in Japan: a new multibillion-yen
business.
IT-enabled corporate training made a splashy entrance into the
Japanese market in the late 1990s, heralding a new era of vast
reductions in corporate training costs and increased accessibility . . .
Even blue dogs have their day: George Rodrigue's canine
creation continues to wow Japanese.
LOCATED ON the edge of Kotto Dori in Tokyo's bustling
Omotesando district lies a gallery with a difference.
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Just meters away from some of the most exclusive boutiques in town,
the . . .
So Fast: challenging the majors on the basics; Logistics does not
have to be complicated.
THINK OF LOGISTICS in Japan, and most people conjure up visions of
huge automated warehouses and to-the-minute tracking systems.
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But the fact is that more than 80 percent of foreign . . .
Exploring Japan.
Shizuoka: Bamboo Babies and Tea
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I went at night, a passenger in the back of an old camper. Outside
was the void that countryside offers late travelers, the road . . .
The importance of tourist dollars not lost in translation:
Hollywood flicks lure visitors Japan-ward.
Postwar Japan presents several images to the outside world. There
is the beautiful scenery, such as the awe-inspiring Mt.Fuji, the coy
geishas, and the ephemeral cherry blossoms. During the 1980s . . .
In the eye of a brainstorm: the state of Japanese science as
observed at Neuroscience 2004.(EVENT)
SEVERAL hours before the doors opened on Neuroscience 2004, the San
Diego Convention Center took on the feeling of a university campus at
midterms.
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CLUSTERED INTO AN AREA less than . . .
Scandals are a feature of the landscape, but small cap stocks are
the real investment story in Japan.(INVESTOR INSIGHT)
ONE CONSTANT feature of the Heisei Malaise has been scandals-most
having to do with hiding the true extent of the balance sheet damage
done by plunging stock prices and land values-but also about . . .
Entering the Japanese market.(MARKET)
TRIANGLE Technologies assists relatively mature technology-based
ventures in penetrating the market in Japan. Dr. Daniel Isenberg,
Triangle's CEO, discusses the benefits of doing business in . . .
Secondhand alchemy: Japan's Anchor Networks recycles junk
into cash.(PROFILE)
JAPAN'S obsession with the latest consumer products, coupled
with its throw-away culture and tightening government regulations, has
created an entire industry around recycling and exporting
"junk." . . .
Japanese getting into the brogue: ECC opens in Ireland the first
on-line English language school.(LETTER FROM IRELAND)
A REFURBISHED Georgian period house, a moment's walk from
leafy Stephen's Green in Dublin, Ireland, is not where you would
expect to find teachers giving English conversation lessons to students
in . . .
When gold turns to fool's gold: dealing with "Nice Guy,
No Action".(VOICE)
LET'S see a show of hands: how many of you have struggled with
one or more buchos (division heads) during your stay in Japan? Be sure
to include those in your own company, your suppliers and your . . .
A marriage maestro wed to innovation: Masahiro Hirose has
successfully customized nuptials to revive the wedding
industry.(FEATU
TOKYO businessman Masahiro Hirose is a bit of a maverick. He runs
one of Japan's most innovative wedding planning and production
agencies, yet secretly he yearns to be a politician.
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Tokyo's office stock vulnerable in a major quake: no
municipal vision, few buildings meeting the latest safety construction
code
Niigata prefecture, a mountainous region about 125 miles north of
Tokyo, was struck by the nation's deadliest earthquake since 1995
on Oct. 23. The quake struck in Niigata at 5:56 p.m. local . . .
The compleat education: Japan's international schools get
high grades for academic standards, diversity, and
values.(EDUCATION)
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS in Japan are selective, and the types of
students who attend these schools you perhaps will not find in
Belchertown or Hicksville USA.
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IT IS A DIVERSE CROWD, . . .
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