TweetI saw a cartoon today –
A man and a woman were walking out of a mall.
The man was carrying four boxes – a plasma TV marked "Made in Taiwan….a DVD player marked "Made …
Archive for the ‘Japan’ Category
Outsourcing – Made in India, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Taiwan….
Japan Bashing by South Korea
TweetIn an article at Washington Post , I read that South Korea is blasting Japan, AGAIN, for whitewashing textbooks about WWII history.
It happens every year about thist time – when new revisi…
Newsweek Enjoys Sushi
TweetAll I can say is that it’s about time.
In an article I found at MSNBC International entitled BEYOND SUSHI two Tokyo based writers, three London based writers, one Australia b…
Guest Blogger – Lorraine Miller-Nara, EdD
TweetCommunicating between cultures can be especially difficult, especially in a business setting. I was reminded again the other day, that different cultures have different expectations, especi…
READ MOREGuest Blogger – China Confidential
TweetA Blogger’s Editorial Wish-List
I’ve been editing and publishing the daily China Confidential Weblog for almost a year, positioning it as a kind of blog of record, with a focus on new…
Japan External Trade Organization – JETRO
TweetJETRO is an organization based in San Francisco. It stands for Japan External; Trade Organization. I guess JETO sounded stupid.
When I opened up a branch to my company Silicon Valley English Comm…
Paperback Nintendo
TweetNintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata,says TETRIS Tetris wouldn’t make it…IF…it were pitched to today’s game publishers.
He says that the video-game industry has becom…
Smaller is Best
TweetI have a Japanese student who showed me is www.panasonic.com lap top. It weighed less than 3lbs and had a battery life of 6+ hours.
I carried my www.ibm.com www.thinkpad.com . He looked at…
