Articles in Doing Business in Japan
Thailand’s new government is planning to pick up where ousted Prime Minister Shinawatra’s left off.
The old government negotiated a free-trade agreement with Japan. The new government plans to have an answer by early next year.
Japan …
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) is a private laboratory in Kyoto Prefecture Japan.
The company has developed Internet software for cell phones that translates Japanese sentences into English and the other way around.
Chinese translation …
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea says it will consider U.S. policy toward them – financial sanctions and such – to determine whether or not they will conduct future nuke tests.
Whether or not the DPRK returns …
Toyota chair professor, Michikazu Aoi, was quoted in www.vir.com.vn as saying "There remains a great deal of uncertainty over policies enacted by the Vietnamese government that we (Japanese companies) cannot predict."
"We believe that Vietnam could …
Japan is the leading source of official development assistance for Vietnam. Japan is also Vietnam’s third largest investor.
Japan’s state minister in charge of science and technology policy said Japan is prepared to further ramp up …
The US used to sell about $1.4 billion worth of beef to Japan. No more.
Costco Japan is the only customer right now. And though Costco sales are brisk, they don’t sell a billion dollars …
Honda has built and ultraefficient vehicle that goes 1300 miles between fill ups. It carries 6-8 passengers – 8 Japanese and 6, sometimes 5 or 4 Americans.
Of course, there is always a catch.
The vehicle costs …
Toyota is planning to voluntarily recall about 2/3 of the Prius cars they have made.
Someone in Japan learned that when you turn the steeling wheel and drive real slow into a curb, it can break something …
Toyota will overtake GM as the number one car maker in the world sometime this year.
Toyota is building factories; GM is closing them down….Toyota…Toyota…Toyota… I am sure GM is tired of the word.
Well, they are …
Ken (pronounced like the boy’s name) is Japanese for prefecture which is roughly equivalant to the US word for state. When I lived in Japan, I lived in Niigata-ken, or Niigata Prefecture.
Japanese like to travel …
