Archive for the ‘Doing Business in Japan’ Category

Japan’s Blogs are Grumbling

Japan’s blogs are grumbling big time because Japan has placed a ban on the resale of some goods.  In short, Japan is trying to close down the second-hand stores.
Starting April 1st, Japan w…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 17th, 2006 in All about Japan, Doing Business in Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

Three Words for Snow Shoveling

We had three words for shoveling snow in Japan.
The first was yukikaki, the second was yukioroshi and the third was yukihori. You might guess that yuki is the word for snow. I know, I know, the eskim…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 16th, 2006 in All about Japan, Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business | No Comments

Japan Teaches Detroit how to Do Busness

In the 1980s not a few Toyota Corollas and Datsun B210s were trashed by angry protesters. (Do you know how Datsun got its name? The boss came in and told the Japanese car name maker that he wante…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 15th, 2006 in All about Japan, Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

White Day

Japan knows how to capitalize on gift giving = make money.
Feb. 14th is Valentines Day in Japan like it is everywhere else. One difference is that in Japan only the women folk give gifts…chocola…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 15th, 2006 in Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business | No Comments

How to Mess Up a Good Thing

The best way to mess up anything, good or bad, is to let a politician get involved. It’s no different in Japan.
Takafumi Horie, founder of www.livedoor.com was all the rage of the busi…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 14th, 2006 in Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

Put Up Your Dukes (Part 2)

My first duke blog was about a little guy, a blogger no less, in China being pushed around by a very rich guy.
This one is about a very very rich guy going after one of the richest (the  ric…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 14th, 2006 in All about Japan, Doing Business in Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

Japan Makes Enemies, Too

Who would have thought that by doing something good you could make so many enemies?
The Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrids, not only get 50 mpg, they also get to travel solo in the diamond land …

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 14th, 2006 in Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

The Four Seasons

Japan has four distinct seasons. Spring goes from March to May. Summer goes from June to August, Fall from September to November and Winter from December to February.
In Spring we enjoy the Cherry Blo…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 13th, 2006 in Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

Get With it America!

Here in the Valley (I live in Silicon Valley) Toyota Priuses were back ordered for months not long ago. I don’t know where it stands now. But people were buying these snazzy ‘green cars…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 13th, 2006 in Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments

Detroit’s Downer

I am looking at a chart that was published in a recent Businessweek article.
Since the early 1990s, when Japan’s recession supposedly began AND when Russia began to open up after the B…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 13th, 2006 in Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business, Japanese Products | No Comments