Archive for the ‘Japan’ Category

Google Teams Up with KDDI in Japan

TweetGoogle has found a new way to do business in Japan.
Google will team up with Japan’s International Telephone Co. KDDI to offer Internet search services in Japan via mobile phone starting i…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 22nd, 2006 in Japan, Japan | No Comments

Time Top 100 – Richard Davidson (East) meets Dalai Lama (West)

TweetDr. Richard Davidson is a researcher at the University of Wisconsin. He is also one of Time top 100 this year. So, what’s he doing in Panasianbiz?
Well, it seems Davidson, is doing some ser…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 21st, 2006 in Japan | No Comments

Time Top 100 – Nicolas Ghesquiere – Japan Makes a Difference

TweetI don’t know beans about fashion. Please don’t tell my wife – she worked as a fashion designer in China for nearly 10 years. Please don’t tell my boss, either. I teach at …

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 19th, 2006 in Japan | 1 Comment

Chopstick Rules – in Japan

TweetJapan has rules – lots of them. And they like it that way. 
It puts a cramp on flexibility sometimes, make that usually, but is also makes things quite predictable, and with that comes…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 16th, 2006 in Japan | 11 Comments

Japan, US Strike Deal to Realign Military

TweetJapan has about 10,000 US Marines and 50,000 US military members total. And ALL of them would rather be in Japan than in Iraq or Afghanistan or on some boat just off the coast.  I was statio…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 12th, 2006 in Japan | No Comments

Internet2 is Almost Ready – Look Out Doraemon

TweetOkay, my microprocessor still runs on hamsters, okay? But, I didn’t even know about Internet2.
Apparently it goes at 10Gps, or nearly 1000 times as fast as my www.comcast.com connection.
Di…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 28th, 2006 in Japan | No Comments

Anti-Japanese Protests – Professor Wang Jisi Responds

TweetDean of Peking’s School of International Studies, Wang Jisi, spent the day before advising President Hu concerning his upcoming visit with President Bush. He then flew to San Francisco to a…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 26th, 2006 in China, Japan | No Comments

Brookings Institution – Questions and Insights

TweetThis is one last blog about the panel discussion of the fellows from Brookings Institution when they spoke at UC San Francisco.
It is not difficult to see how politics influences business in…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 20th, 2006 in China, India, Japan | 4 Comments