Japan News

by No Author on 23 March, 2019 at 8:24 am

A second week has begun of efforts to find and help tens of thousands of people after Cyclone Idai devastated parts of southern Africa.Members of ... […]

by No Author on 23 March, 2019 at 8:21 am

The central government is unsure when it will complete all of its preparations for two new visa categories, with preparatory work unlikely to be concluded ... […]

by Jim Mustian on 23 March, 2019 at 8:04 am

U.S. President Donald Trump portrayed Robert Mueller as the bane of his existence, but even with the special counsel’s Russia investigation wrapped up, he may ... […]

by Ken Y-N on 13 February, 2019 at 4:27 pm

Let’s celebrate the Chinese New Year of the pig by a survey from @nifty looking at pigs and their meat. In Japan the year’s animal is a wild boar rather than a pig, but as far as I am aware wild boar meat (and game in general) is not very popular […]

by Ken Y-N on 4 February, 2019 at 2:32 pm

This fun ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at what RPG class or job Japanese people might like to be or do in a real fantasy life. This was an open survey, and I voted! I chose necromancer, but I’d only want to be one in-game; if it were […]

by Ken Y-N on 28 January, 2019 at 4:42 pm

Here’s a fun survey from goo Ranking on foods people came to like as adults. The most hated foods (I would guess) from both sides of the Atlantic don’t make in onto this list. In the UK, Brussels sprouts were definitely something I disliked […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 22 March, 2019 at 2:51 pm

UK is the birthplace of innovation and will not sink, despite Brexit, says Toru Sugawara, the deputy editor of the Nikkei Business magazine – Japan’s equivalent of The Economist (only with more business, less economy). He acknowledges that Brexit […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 12 March, 2019 at 4:25 pm

If I were to capture what I try to do in my work in one phrase, it would be “build trust between Japanese and European business cultures.” This of course leads to questions of how trust is defined, and therefore … The post Five elements of […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 28 February, 2019 at 11:45 am

The death of the Japanese trading company and the “keiretsu” (company grouping) model has been repeatedly announced over the nearly thirty years since I started working for leading trading company Mitsubishi Corporation and researching their […]

by Motoko Hunt on 22 February, 2019 at 10:42 pm

While most websites have logic in its content structure, it is very common that managing the website content becomes complicated as new content is added to the site. The websites with multiple product lines, multiple languages, and multiple target countries […]

by Motoko Hunt on 31 December, 2018 at 11:48 pm

It’s hard to believe that another year has gone, and it’s time to make my New Year’s Eve soba noodle dishes and prepare for the Japanese New Year’s dishes. But before I shut down my computer for 2018, let’s have a quick review of […]

by Motoko Hunt on 30 October, 2018 at 7:29 pm

When I started providing the SEO services to the businesses in the 90s, the SEO was not a popular concept, and not many business owners who have a website even knew what it was. I usually needed to start explaining what the SEO was, and how the businesses […]

by Micha'el Tanchum on 22 March, 2019 at 11:00 pm

Author: Micha’el Tanchum, Hebrew University A recent investigation revealed that Chinese troops are stationed on Tajikistan’s southeastern border, 30 kilometres from Pakistan-administered Kashmir across Afghanistan’s Wakhan corridor. India […]

by Amresh Gunasingham on 22 March, 2019 at 11:00 am

Author: Amresh Gunasingham, RSIS Sri Lanka’s move in February 2019 to bring back capital punishment for convicted drug offenders has put a spotlight on the growth of narcotics-related crime in the country. The government’s apparent tough stance is […]

by Marco Milani on 21 March, 2019 at 11:00 pm

Authors: Markus Bell and Marco Milani, University of Sheffield Following the Hanoi summit, critics argue that the absence of an agreement between Trump and Kim is a sign that diplomacy between the United States and North Korea has failed. But even without a […]