Posted February 4th, 2012 by Megumi Oyanagi
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Business From recent analysis, it is estimated that Japanese listed companies in total are to decrease their profit by around 20% from the previous year attributing to historic high yen, flood in Thailand and EU financial crisis. Losers are export-oriented man
Posted January 10th, 2012 by Megumi Oyanagi
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Business This is based on a recent Japanese newspaper article about Japanese general construction companies are to heavily invest in Tohoku, the hard-hit region by the Japan disaster that occured on March 11, 2011. It is because reconstruction of motorways/roa
Posted January 3rd, 2012 by Megumi Oyanagi
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Business This is based on a latest report that Samsung, the global leader, will re-enter the Japan flat panel TV market in 2013 after their first attempt in 2002. Their decision is based on their stronger corporate brand due to successful smart phone (Galaxy se
Posted December 21st, 2011 by Megumi Oyanagi
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Business This is about a idol unit/pop group of Japanese 8 girls from Sendai (victims of the Japan disaster) established in August this year to stand up to give smiles and encouragement is taking the initiative when the reconstruction has been slow. They did a
Posted December 16th, 2011 by Megumi Oyanagi
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Management This is concrete case studies/examples of 4 Japanese companies about their global talent development programmes, including such companies as Hitachi and Fuji Xerox.
Posted December 16th, 2011 by Megumi Oyanagi
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Management This is about how Japanese companies started to strategically acquire, develop and retain/engage global talent, when they have been behind their western counterparts in this area. This is because they need to globalize their organization and business
Posted October 7th, 2011 by Liz Canham
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Article Marketing It is an accepted fact that article marketing is the best, free way of attracting traffic to your website but getting your article published at the top article submission websites can be fraught with difficulties. Here are my top tips for getting your
Posted October 5th, 2011 by Liz Canham
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Article Marketing I guess most of you want to get traffic to your website free but you don't know how. There are a number of different free ways of creating website traffic but my favourite is article marketing.
Posted September 25th, 2011 by Megumi Oyanagi
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Marketing This is about a recent hot issue in Japan, which is about making application to make Mt. Fuji registered as a World Heritage after multiple attemps since 2003. Bottom line: the success depends on successful marketing and branding of Mt. Fuji, defining
Posted September 4th, 2011 by Liz Canham
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Marketing If you own an offline business, you'll know the problems of attracting new clients. If you have an internet based business, you need to use internet marketing techniques to attract traffic. Without active marketing you'll never attract targeted traff