Business in Japan Discussions - TechHui2024-03-29T07:44:06Zhttp://www.techhui.com/group/businessinjapan/forum?groupUrl=businessinjapan&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWill Japan, Inc. follow Toshiba's Strategy Prepping for even stronger yen?tag:www.techhui.com,2010-10-28:1702911:Topic:689812010-10-28T22:17:57.308ZDavid F. Dayhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidFDay
<font size="4">Toshiba and select Japanese currency traders are quietly preparing for an ever-strengthening Yen. Plans include a reasonable expectation that the Yen will plummet below the 70 = $1.00 floor. This would mark a new post-war low for the dollar.<br></br><br></br></font><p style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1044549901?profile=original"></img></p>
<br></br><font size="4"><br></br>While we might see this as a strengthening yen that the Japanese central bank cannot do much about, what is really happening is that Tokyo is not so much…</font>
<font size="4">Toshiba and select Japanese currency traders are quietly preparing for an ever-strengthening Yen. Plans include a reasonable expectation that the Yen will plummet below the 70 = $1.00 floor. This would mark a new post-war low for the dollar.<br/><br/></font><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1044549901?profile=original" alt=""/></p>
<br/><font size="4"><br/>While we might see this as a strengthening yen that the Japanese central bank cannot do much about, what is really happening is that Tokyo is not so much fighting a yen that is getting stronger...but a dollar that is getting weaker by the day.<br/><br/>Toshiba is out in front of Japan, Inc. and recently adopted a strategy profiting from the Yen's rise by changing the company's procurement policies and production techniques.<br/><br/>In order to follow Toshiba, the rest of Japan, Inc. will now have to face big changes.<br/></font> Businesses in Japan: Staying Powertag:www.techhui.com,2010-10-03:1702911:Topic:681322010-10-03T21:36:20.998ZMika Leuckhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/MikaLeuck
A few highlights:<br></br>- There are about 22,000 companies that are over a 100 years old. <br></br>- About 1,200 are more than 200 years old.<br></br>- 39 companies are over 500 years old. Wow. Do you think your company will be around in 500 years?<br></br>- The oldest company was established in 578.<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.asahi.com/business/update/1004/TKY201010030285.html" target="_blank">http://www.asahi.com/business/update/1004/TKY201010030285.html</a><br></br><br></br>*ハイライト*<br></br>-…
A few highlights:<br/>- There are about 22,000 companies that are over a 100 years old. <br/>- About 1,200 are more than 200 years old.<br/>- 39 companies are over 500 years old. Wow. Do you think your company will be around in 500 years?<br/>- The oldest company was established in 578.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.asahi.com/business/update/1004/TKY201010030285.html" target="_blank">http://www.asahi.com/business/update/1004/TKY201010030285.html</a><br/><br/>*ハイライト*<br/>- 日本の長者企業で約22,000社が創業100年以上<br/>- 日本の長者企業で約1,200が創業100年以上<br/>- 日本の長者企業で39社が創業500年以上<br/>- もっとも古い会社は創業578年!<br/><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1044552164?profile=original" alt=""/></p>
<br/> Manipulating Yen and its impact upon Japanese Businesstag:www.techhui.com,2010-09-29:1702911:Topic:679422010-09-29T02:19:57.860ZDavid F. Dayhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidFDay
<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">A few days ago, the Japanese government unilaterally intervened in the global markets to deliberately weaken the Yen to help sustain the country's exports. <br></br><br></br>This move resulted in a lot of criticism both in Europe and the U.S. as Japan is now seen by some as currency manipulator just like China. The problem is that the government's intervention was totally ineffective.<br></br><br></br>Yesterday, I noticed that…</span></span></span>
<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">A few days ago, the Japanese government unilaterally intervened in the global markets to deliberately weaken the Yen to help sustain the country's exports. <br/><br/>This move resulted in a lot of criticism both in Europe and the U.S. as Japan is now seen by some as currency manipulator just like China. The problem is that the government's intervention was totally ineffective.<br/><br/>Yesterday, I noticed that the resilient Yen simply climbed back up to where it was. Given this little exercise, the Yen is likely to continue to run at very high levels--blocking economic growth which the country could surely use. To put it another way, the Yen may now be beyond the government's ability to manipulate-- for the time being.<br/><br/><br/></span></span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1044552103?profile=original"/></p> Video clip on Rakuten going English Onlytag:www.techhui.com,2010-08-06:1702911:Topic:654362010-08-06T20:31:49.057ZBen Wardhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/BenWard
Rakuten is going English only. I am going to be really impressed if the<br />
stick with it. I couldn't image my former employer, GMO Internet, doing this.<br/><br/><a href="http://ow.ly/2mcg4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ow.ly/2mcg4</a><br/><br/>Ben<br/><a href="http://mauilabs.com">http://mauilabs.com</a><br/>
Rakuten is going English only. I am going to be really impressed if the<br />
stick with it. I couldn't image my former employer, GMO Internet, doing this.<br/><br/><a href="http://ow.ly/2mcg4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ow.ly/2mcg4</a><br/><br/>Ben<br/><a href="http://mauilabs.com">http://mauilabs.com</a><br/> Japan's Workers Struggle with Englishtag:www.techhui.com,2010-08-06:1702911:Topic:654142010-08-06T03:34:00.340ZDavid F. Dayhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/DavidFDay
Wall Street Journal Graphic for Friday, August 6, 2010 illustrating that while most Japanese high schoolers graduate with 6 years of English study, few are comfortable holding conversations in English. Here is the WSJ graph illustrating Japanese TOFEL scores measured against nationals other countries.<br></br> <a href="http://bit.ly/aGiiiz">http://bit.ly/aGiiiz</a> <br></br><br></br>It is interesting to see the difference between the Japanese scores and those of the neighboring countries of China and South…
Wall Street Journal Graphic for Friday, August 6, 2010 illustrating that while most Japanese high schoolers graduate with 6 years of English study, few are comfortable holding conversations in English. Here is the WSJ graph illustrating Japanese TOFEL scores measured against nationals other countries.<br/> <a href="http://bit.ly/aGiiiz">http://bit.ly/aGiiiz</a> <br/><br/>It is interesting to see the difference between the Japanese scores and those of the neighboring countries of China and South Korea which are better. While this chart does not show it, I know that the TOFEL scores of North Koreans for tests taken on the internet are also higher than the Japanese.<br/> 裸眼で使える3D携帯の登場、間近tag:www.techhui.com,2010-08-04:1702911:Topic:653252010-08-04T22:00:40.172ZMika Leuckhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/MikaLeuck
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS Pゴシック'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">昨日、シャープ片山幹雄社長が世界初の3D携帯電話を年内に発表することを<a href="http://www.asahi.com/business/update/0803/OSK201008030144.html">公表しました</a>。シャープはすでに3Dカメラモジュールのサンプルの出荷をすでにおこなっていて、そのモジュールを組み込んだ3D携帯だと思われます。…</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS Pゴシック'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">昨日、シャープ片山幹雄社長が世界初の3D携帯電話を年内に発表することを<a href="http://www.asahi.com/business/update/0803/OSK201008030144.html">公表しました</a>。シャープはすでに3Dカメラモジュールのサンプルの出荷をすでにおこなっていて、そのモジュールを組み込んだ3D携帯だと思われます。</span></font></p>
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<br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">これで、アップルやサムソンに圧され気味だった世界の携帯市場も日本の企業にもチャンスが巡ってくるかもしれません</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">。</span><br/>
<br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">3Dものと言えば、すでにTVなど店頭にならんでいますが、コンテンツが少ないだけに普及が遅いです。しかし、携帯の3DコンテンツはTVにくらべコストが少なくできる分、普及するのにTVほど時間がかからないと思います。将来、求人広告の欄に「求む!携帯、3Dゲーム開発者」という記事を目にするのもそう遠くないかもしれません。</span><br/>
<p></p> mCommerce Comes of Agetag:www.techhui.com,2010-08-04:1702911:Topic:653082010-08-04T21:30:48.230ZDaniel Leuckhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/dleuck
Would you browse and buy clothing with your phone? Nearly half of all purchases on Japan's hottest new fashion portal are transacted via mobile phones.<br></br>
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<blockquote>WSJ: One unique area where Japan is ahead of the pack is mobile e-commerce, where it is the global leader. Registered users can conveniently buy items from their cellphones. Mobile commerce now is nearly makes up half of Zozotown’s total sales, which totaled over 17 billion yen (US$190 million; 1 US$1 = JPY90) for the 12…</blockquote>
Would you browse and buy clothing with your phone? Nearly half of all purchases on Japan's hottest new fashion portal are transacted via mobile phones.<br/>
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<blockquote>WSJ: One unique area where Japan is ahead of the pack is mobile e-commerce, where it is the global leader. Registered users can conveniently buy items from their cellphones. Mobile commerce now is nearly makes up half of Zozotown’s total sales, which totaled over 17 billion yen (US$190 million; 1 US$1 = JPY90) for the 12 months ended in March 2010, according to Start Today’s annual results.<br/> <br/>
日本が抜きん出ている独特の分野は、携帯電話を用いた電子商取引だ。この分野で日本は世界のリーダーだ。登録済みのユーザーは、携帯電話から商品を購入することができる。ZOZOTOWNの決算報告によると、10年3月通期の携帯電話での取引による売上高は、同社全体の170億円超のほぼ半分を占めた。</blockquote>
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<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2010/08/02/zozotown-gets-japan-fashion-online/">Full article</a><br/>
<br/> Yahoo! Japan to use Google as default search enginetag:www.techhui.com,2010-07-27:1702911:Topic:649892010-07-27T18:36:26.537ZScott Murphyhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/ScottMurphy
Yahoo! Japan is looking to partner with Google to use their search engine and abandon Yahoo! (US) search. <br/><br/>This is interesting in many levels considering that Yahoo! in the US is going to use Bing for their search but in Japan we see a different partnership.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1007/27/news038.html">http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1007/27/news038.html</a><br/>
Yahoo! Japan is looking to partner with Google to use their search engine and abandon Yahoo! (US) search. <br/><br/>This is interesting in many levels considering that Yahoo! in the US is going to use Bing for their search but in Japan we see a different partnership.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1007/27/news038.html">http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1007/27/news038.html</a><br/> Why Japan Matters: iPad Mania, Cloud Computing, And Social Intelligencetag:www.techhui.com,2010-06-09:1702911:Topic:627502010-06-09T04:02:51.251ZGus Higuerahttp://www.techhui.com/profile/GusHiguera
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(39, 39, 39); line-height: 19px;">Interesting <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/why-japan-matters/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher">article</a> about social media and business in general in Japan</span></b></span></font></b></span></font></div>
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"One of the things that captivated my attention in Japan was how utterly swept the country is with social networking—there is a Japanese <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/24/the-facebook-imperative/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 159, 0);">Facebook Imperative</a> underway. Japan is already one of Twitter’s largest markets, and local social vendors like Mixi are pervasive. Japanese customers have easily and rapidly adopted social networking as it is highly compatible with their community-based culture. Japan, more than any other country, is ready to accelerate social networking with mobile. The wide penetration of 3G will be an engine for this movement. In fact, Japan has the highest percentage market penetration of 3G of any country, according to <a href="http://www.infocom-de.com/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 159, 0);">InfoCom<img id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" class="snap_preview_icon" src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.33/t.gif"/></a>. The combination of dominant social market share and broadband wireless is a powerful catalyst for Japan’s IT industry." Japan Mobile SNS Study 2010tag:www.techhui.com,2010-05-22:1702911:Topic:616672010-05-22T22:44:41.286ZGus Higuerahttp://www.techhui.com/profile/GusHiguera
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