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Japan Times (Newspaper)
News – The Japan Times News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More
- Core consumer inflation ticked up in December, but remained far short of BOJ’s 2% targetby No Author on 24 January, 2020 at 7:20 pm
Core consumer prices rose in December from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, climbing from the previous month, but inflation was still well ...
- Examining the coronavirus outbreak and how lessons learned from SARS can apply to the growing crisisby Eric Johnston on 24 January, 2020 at 7:20 pm
With the arrival of the Lunar New Year, Japan and other international destinations are bracing for an annual influx of tourists.But as the deadly new ...
- Japan’s largest bank offers users ¥1,000 to give up paper passbooks and go digitalby Kazuaki Nagata on 24 January, 2020 at 7:19 pm
To encourage more customers to go digital, Japan’s largest bank is offering depositors who give up their paper bankbooks a ¥1,000 reward.In a campaign that ...
What Japan Thinks (Market Research Blog)
世論 What Japan Thinks From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys.
- Japan’s tastiest fizzy drinkby Ken Y-N on 15 December, 2019 at 3:14 pm
No real surprises with the most popular, but the second, third and fourth are in this list of what the Japanese rate as the tastiest carbonated drinks. Pictured is a special limited-time flavour of the number two drink. Oronamin C Drink and others with […]
- Theme restaurants or bars Japanese wish to visitby Ken Y-N on 10 December, 2019 at 3:50 pm
No words, just a map: OK, a few words; goo Ranking looked at what theme restaurants or bars Japanese might want to visit. Some of these restaurants are also popular with tourists and foreign residents, so perhaps you can find a new favourite in the list? Also […]
- Japan’s tastiest family restaurantby Ken Y-N on 24 November, 2019 at 2:44 pm
Today we have goo Ranking looking at where Japanese rate as the tastiest family restaurant. “Family restaurant” is another example of Japanese English; it isn’t “family-owned”, but “family-friendly”. Saizeria as […]
Rudlin Consulting (Business Culture Blog)
Rudlin Consulting Understanding Japanese business
- Japanese companies in Europe say Brexit is their biggest worry for 2020by Pernille Rudlin on 15 January, 2020 at 4:07 pm
The annual Japan External Trade Relations Organisation (JETRO) survey of Japanese companies in Europe reveals that over 70% of Japanese companies expect their European operations to be profitable for the fifth year running, but concerns over an economic […]
- “If we carry on like this, Japan will perish” – Uniqlo’s founder Tadashi Yanaiby Pernille Rudlin on 18 December, 2019 at 5:02 pm
Tadashi Yanai, founder and president of Fast Retailing (Uniqlo) has some hard hitting words for the Nikkei Business magazine series “Wake Up Japan”: “Japan is the only country which relies mainly on one big intake of domestic graduate hires […]
- How Japanese companies are revitalising their senior employeesby Pernille Rudlin on 16 December, 2019 at 1:35 pm
As previously blogged, corporate Japan is facing (for the fourth time) a hidden unemployment/underemployment problem with its middle-senior employees. This time, the view is rather than sideline them or push them out – given Japan’s labour […]
Motoko’s Blog – AJPR (Japanese SEO)
- SEO Never Dies – It Continuously Evolvesby Motoko Hunt on 3 January, 2020 at 8:07 pm
If you are thinking of SEO from the time we just survived from Y2K, you won’t recognize today’s SEO. But, it doesn’t mean that SEO is dead… or dying. During the last 20 years (!), SEO has changed dramatically. It evolved due to the […]
- In-House Trainingby Motoko Hunt on 3 January, 2020 at 7:27 pm
More companies are choosing to handle SEO and other digital marketing work in-house. We provide training and guidance to enhance or update your in-house skills. Contact us about our SEM Training and Consulting Services. We create SEM Strategies and provide […]
- SEO Trends of 2020 by Top SEOsby Motoko Hunt on 30 December, 2019 at 7:32 pm
I was lucky to be a part of this “The biggest SEO trends of 2020” E-book by Search Engine Journal by 58 experts. It’s not a prediction but provides the areas of SEO work that anyone whose work is related to or impacts the organic search […]
East Asia Forum (Politics & Economics)
East Asia Forum Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific
- ASEAN’s RCEP and sustainability challenges and achievementsby Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit on 23 January, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Author: Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit, RSIS As the end of 2019 drew near, Thailand hosted two ASEAN summits under the theme ‘Advancing Partnership for Sustainability’. Looking at how the meetings unfolded, one may ask: what were ASEAN’s major […]
- Pushing through India’s economic slowdownby Raghbendra Jha on 23 January, 2020 at 11:00 am
Author: Raghbendra Jha, ANU After two years of very robust growth, the Indian economy has begun to slow — and quite sharply. The economy grew at 6.8 per cent in 2018–19. The RBI forecasts it will grow at about 5 per cent in 2019–20, while […]
- The case for a Taiwan sovereign wealth fundby Shaokai Fan on 22 January, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Author: Shaokai Fan, Tufts Taiwan needs to address a glaring gap in its financial toolkit — the absence of a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). An SWF brings not just the potential for higher financial returns but also an opportunity to broaden Taiwan’s […]
