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on 20 September, 2017 at 10:21 pm

Former Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki will not run in the Lower House election expected next month given that he remains hospitalized following a ... […]

on 20 September, 2017 at 10:16 pm

The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan totaled 18,916,200 in the first eight months of this year, a record for the period, the Japan ... […]

on 20 September, 2017 at 10:13 pm

Rescuers found a surviving child on Wednesday in the ruins of a school that collapsed in Mexico’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake, one of many efforts across ... […]

by Ken Y-N on 18 September, 2017 at 2:31 pm

The survey was officially-entitled underpants stain troubles, and was an excuse to promote Unicharm’s new skidmark catch pads, or whatever their official name is. Most of my underpants stains occur in the hot weather here, when I get an involuntary bum […]

by Ken Y-N on 13 September, 2017 at 2:38 pm

@nifty took a look at animals and pets. Especially given that a new baby panda was recently born in Japan’s most well-known zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo, I was surprised to see pandas relatively low in the listings; penguins beating dolphins also seemed […]

by Ken Y-N on 10 September, 2017 at 2:41 pm

Finally I found a good goo Ranking after a long blank stretch, this look at typical happenings at Japanese dentists. I hate the whole idea of dentists, but it’s a necessary evil, and of course the feeling after getting de-plaqued makes the visit worth […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 18 September, 2017 at 3:39 pm

“Don’t give up on expressing your concerns to the British government, but also start putting your contingency plans into action now” was the response from Haruki Hayashi, CEO of Europe & Africa for Mitsubishi Corporation to a question at […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 1 September, 2017 at 2:57 pm

I’ve uploaded a rather wobbly recording of my interview on Sky News regarding Brexit, Theresa May’s visit to Japan and Japanese business in the UK here. For more content like this, subscribe to the free Rudlin Consulting Newsletter. […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 30 August, 2017 at 11:19 am

I still get the impression that gender diversity is regarded by Japanese companies as a Japan-only issue, even though our researches show there is still a gender diversity issue for Japanese companies in their European subsidiaries too. It’s good […]

by Motoko Hunt on 28 August, 2017 at 9:24 pm

Each generation seems to have different online behaviors and habits. Many data shows that Baby-Boomers still conduct majority of online activities from PC, while younger generations are glued to their smartphones. For the past 2-3 years, […]

by Motoko Hunt on 31 July, 2017 at 10:48 pm

Baidu is still dominating China’s search market. Some of the newer search engines such as 360 search, Sogou, and Shenma (mobile) are growing, but Baidu maintains the top search engine spot in China with more than 75% share. Therefore, it is crucial for […]

by Motoko Hunt on 30 June, 2017 at 11:37 pm

In North America and Europe, people, especially the teenagers are moving away from Twitter and Facebook to Instagram and Snapchat. You can find a similar trend in Japan. According to Just Systems’ web services usage survey report, LINE, Youtube, and […]

by Kongkea Chhoeun on 20 September, 2017 at 12:00 pm

Author: Kongkea Chhoeun, ANU It might be easy to forget given the events of August–September 2017, but Cambodian democracy had until a few years ago been making progress. Many key indicators of democratic quality had continued to improve since the 1998 […]

by Sourabh Gupta on 20 September, 2017 at 12:00 am

Author: Sourabh Gupta, Institute for China–America Studies During the first week of September 2017, President Xi Jinping chaired the 9th BRICS Summit in Xiamen in China’s Fujian province between member countries Brazil, Russia, India, […]

by Adam Simpson on 19 September, 2017 at 12:00 pm

Author: Adam Simpson, Hawke Research Institute Early on the morning of 25 August 2017, Fortify Rights — a regional human rights NGO — held an internal workshop at their Bangkok office. The previous day, the Kofi Annan-led Advisory Commission on […]