Tokyo Landlords Lose Century-Old ‘Gift Money’ as Rents Slump
After viewing almost 100 Tokyo apartments, banker Damien Cambon was happy to discover that a Japanese tradition dating back....
29 Sep 7:04 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
China lifts rare earth export ban to Japan
China has ended a de facto ban on exports to Japan of rare earth minerals, a Japanese trading firm source said on Wednesday....
29 Sep 12:42 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Top twenty pricey perceptions of Japanese goods
Here’s an interesting survey from goo Ranking, looking at what people think that compared to overseas is far too expensive in Japan. Demog....
26 Sep 11:46 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan iPad competitor – The LuvPad – runs on Android 2.2
It’s certainly very exciting to see an Android-based competitor for Apple’s "revolutionary" iPad coming out o....
24 Sep 9:20 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
China blocks rare earths exports to Japan – Electronics will suffer
China has blocked all exports of rare earths to Japan, stepping up the pressure on Tokyo to release a Chinese boat captain ....
24 Sep 1:06 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Server virtualisation not well understood
A recent survey from Media Interactive (iResearch) and reported on by japan.internet.com took a look at the matter of servers, with this par....
23 Sep 11:51 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Upper Intermediate Lesson #20 – Karoushi – Working to Death 4
Do you feel overworked? Think you might be working yourself to death? In Japan, people really do, quite literally, work themselves to death ....
23 Sep 6:30 pm  from  JapanesePod101   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka station facilities
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23 Sep 1:04 am  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Wall Street Journal: “Japan’s Workers: Please Don’t Send Me Abroad. Ever.”
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal opened with this: The Galapagosization of Japan continues. According to a survey released today....
21 Sep 11:11 pm  from  Japan Economy News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Fairtrade fairly unknown in Japan
I can’t go anywhere in Europe or America without bumping into a Fairtrade product, usually coffee or tea, but as this recent survey from g....
20 Sep 11:43 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Getting old
MONDAY the 20th is Respect for the Aged Day in Japan, which is a national holiday. One manifestation of the custom of Japanese (and other Ea....
20 Sep 10:47 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Be careful what you ask for
BE CAREFUL what you ask for, say the gods, because you just might get it. Here’s a case in point. Toyota must be feeling slighted with the....
17 Sep 1:06 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Be careful what you ask for
BE CAREFUL what you ask for, say the gods, because you just might get it. Here’s a case in point. Toyota must be feeling slighted with the....
17 Sep 1:06 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Kan the man
TO READ SOME descriptions in the English-language print media, one would think Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto is a “fiscal conservative....
17 Sep 1:42 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan readying their robot workers
The replacement of humans by machines in the workplace took another step forward on Wednesday, as Japanese researchers unve....
16 Sep 11:57 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Modern times
They have to get money from someplace. - Edwin Merner, president of the Atlantis Investment Research Corp. in Tokyo CALIFORNIA GOV. Arnold S....
16 Sep 1:19 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan Acts to Weaken the Yen
Japan moved on Wednesday to prop up the dollar and weaken the yen in a bid to protect its export-led economy, intervening i....
15 Sep 12:51 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japanese working overseas, and overseas workers in Japan
The Cabinet Office Japan recently took a look at the international movement of workers, which for this survey was specifically Japanese want....
13 Sep 11:56 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
130 million dollars not protected in Japan as IBJ bank fails
Some 130 million dollars deposited to the failed Incubator Bank of Japan (IBJ) will not be covered by the state-backed depo....
13 Sep 8:18 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The worst and the worse
If there’s one thing I’ve learned up here (in Washington)…is the only way to get Congress to balance the budget is to give them no cho....
12 Sep 6:54 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The fundamental things apply
TEN DAYS AGO, in this post about labor disputes between China and Japan, I wrote about the Chinese government’s decision to limit rare ear....
10 Sep 11:47 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The fundamental things apply
TEN DAYS AGO, in this post about labor disputes between China and Japan, I wrote about the Chinese government’s decision to limit rare ear....
10 Sep 11:47 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Let’s make a deal
Many (on the left) are correct when they bemoan the collusion of government and corporations. They even have a point when they decry special....
7 Sep 2:34 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
My adverts are invisible to many Japanese
And they’re also invisible to many of you lot, judging by my data! I mention this as today’s survey is from goo Research, reported on by....
6 Sep 11:54 pm  from  What Japan Thinks   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sony debuts Prototype of Google TV
Sony Corp will exhibit a prototype of an LCD TV compatible with Google TV, a platform that Google Inc is developing for TVs....
6 Sep 12:25 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sharp debuts iPad Self-Ordering System at Izakaya
With this system, the pictures shown on the iPad can be exactly the same as those on the conventional menu. The system make....
5 Sep 4:11 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Can’t they find anybody who can read?
WRITING FOR the Market Watch website, Lisa Twaronite thinks what she calls the “Ozawa Shock”–the candidacy and possible victory of Oza....
4 Sep 1:00 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan Public Pension Fund to Sell $48 Billion in Assets to Pay Aging Nation
Japan’s public pension fund, the world’s largest, will sell about 4 trillion yen ($48 billion) in assets this fiscal ye....
3 Sep 12:40 pm  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Arbeit macht frei
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS offers a barely coherent report by Anita Chang on a meeting in Beijing last weekend between Chinese leaders and a Japan....
31 Aug 10:53 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan’s Finance Minister speaks of unilateral intervention after yen rise
Japan’s finance minister further sharpened his rhetoric on the yen’s steep gains after the Nikkei newspaper reported Ja....
26 Aug 1:29 am  from  Bionicbong   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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