Two major sporting events, Japan Rugby 2019 and Tokyo 2020 are just around the corner, with the Osaka World Expo following in 2025. It’s the ideal time to get your brand noticed not just by Japan, but by the whole world. It is a market watched globally for its trends and technological innovations, that is …
This post is a summary of a quite detailed, excellent post from Infocubic Japan, “Info Cubic ─ Online marketing specialists for Japan and beyond” a company I encourage you to check out. The whole post can be read in full here, complete with a large list of source links to read even more! Japan is the second largest luxury market in the world – behind the United …
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Japan’s labor laws are vastly different from other countries. Unlike places like the U.S. where employees are sometimes famously fired at-will and without cause, Japan’s laws are designed to protect the employees, making it very difficult for a company to fire an employee without cause and ample amounts of evidence. In order to determine your …
This is a quick Summary of a great little professionally produced, 20 minute video introduction and interview based guide to doing business in Japan, from Aussie Economist Tim Harcourt, who is ‘The Airport Economist‘ The Airport Economist is a television show and series of best-selling books which bring expertise and insight to global economics, business …
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This post I originally wrote on LinkedIn publishing here. If you have any other sites or comments on the list you can comment on the LinkedIn post. Whether searching for Freelancers in Japan for a Project, or you’re a Freelancer/ potential Freelancer in Japan looking for ways to find work, these are some sites as …
The third in a series of articles by Marc Cellucci covering smartphone app development in Japan, from the very beginning up until today. This time the short article, thtat I encourage you to read it all of (very quick read), he discusses a common experience in software development; “crunch time”, where developers have to fit three months’ …
Key subjects: The role of the working environment in communication The prevalence of ‘Tatemae’ and the difficulty to find ‘honne’ The impact of ‘unspoken rules’ and etiquette in common culture Japanese act differently A summary from Kim Christian Botho Pedersen: Looking inside the Japanese mind: 7.1 – Difference between the Japanese employee / professionals and …
Organizations supporting international trade and investment facilitation are “exploring new platforms and showing greater confidence in their abilities to use social media effectively” Social media can be a great way to connect with customers abroad, building your brand, provide services and reduce the distance between you and your customers overseas. The prime steps in establishing …
Below is Julian Bashore’s answer to this question on Quora. Yes, you bet Japan is a good country for business for a whole host of reasons. From my perspective as a manager working in a B2B environment, I will list some less obvious reasons as follows: 1) Loyalty of workforce Everyone from the custodial staff to …
This is a pretty awesome article, so I had to summarize it. It’s a long summary for a long article – there is after all a lot to understand here. You’ll learn about the the state of hiring, and firing, in Japan. Although aimed at people outside Japan needing to understand what it is going …