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How do Japanese Companies Invest in Emerging Markets Like Turkey?
BBC Türkçe — Tokyo Reuters news agency reported last week that Turkey’s Yıldız Holding has been preparing to sell Japanese operations of one of its brands, the luxury chocolate producer Godiva, to an undisclosed buyer. This rumor has not yet been confirmed by Godiva. However, the possibility that the prospective buyer could be a Japanese …
Naomi Osaka Offers Best of Both Worlds, So Why Was Japan So Late to Embrace Her?
Tokyo — BBC News Türkçe Born in Japan, where unity and similarity are valued, Naomi was raised and trained in the US, a country known for cherishing individual success and diversity. Judging by her Instagram posts, she looks like any other 20-year-old American girl: strutting her blond tinted hair at Times Square in New …
PORTRAIT OF A JAPANESE BRAND — KNOT
KNOT ノット — where mass customization at affordable price is the norm What’s the fuss? Knot is a high quality, customized and Japan made watch brand sold at a fraction of the stuff that the Swiss and other watchmaker giants that it is inspired by produces. (Not to mention the excellent Japanese customer care to …
Analogue Strikes Back – 1: Handmade Business Cards
This is the first dispatch in a series of digital products and services with a modern twist on the analogue. NAKAMURA KATSUJI — return to handcrafted business card A small painting in a gold color frame of a man with a long, blonde beard, wearing a fur-trimmed cap jumps from the past to greet visitors …
Peanuts and Drinks: Uber Has Other Lessons to Learn From Japan
LATE NIGHT TAXI — small gestures that mean the world to a (tired) customer You work late in the office one night, miss the last train, and don’t have a choice but to ride a cab home. The rain has turned into a downpour and you are cursing to your bad luck. You hail a cab, …
A Japanese Hotel Business Idea Combines Traditional Hospitality with Innovation
FIRST CABIN — convenient luxury at low price Unlike a soulless business hotel, or a random room for daily rent, a stay at First Cabin feels like a fresh reinterpretation of that well-known Japanese fad — the capsule hotel. A high-end compact hotel in Atogayama near Nishishimbashi area, First Cabin is decked with woodgrain trims and an interior …
JAPAN: INSPIRATIONS/ EXPERIENCES/ SUBCULTURES
“…because Japan is the global imagination’s default setting for the future.” — William Gibson, science fiction writer who coined terms like “cyberspace” and “matrix”, 2001 As a researcher-turned-journalist, I have always been intrigued by Japan. I first came to this country in 1993 as a graduate student, and later worked here as a market …
Tokyo’s Misfit Sibling Comes of Age
Skylife, March 2018 — It’s best to say out loud from the outset an open secret: Osaka is not on the radar of everyone who visits Japan. Most people travel to Tokyo, the neon capital of the world, but bypass Osaka and continue to Kyoto, the country’s cultural heart. As the noisy and fun-loving sibling …
A Rhodes Scholar Speaks Out
An academic star of Haitian descent responds to Trump’s anti-immigrant remarks West Side Spirit — Jan. 22, 2018 Thamara Jean is a regular at Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where she helps her family at the church all day every Sunday. For the 22-year-old political science major at Hunter College — who in November …
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