This recent article by the CS Monitor (thanks Andrew) is quite interesting regarding starting up a business in different countries. Japan, of course, is not in the top 10 (for ease), but thankfully not in the bottom 10 either. The Worldbank sight mentioned is actually very interesting. Japan’s details are here.
So, it [...]
Vent. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. For the time being I’m smirking.
Listening to good music while your stomach and intestines make wierd grumbling noises (which you feel more than hear), wondering “…can the people around me hear that?”
Supposedly difficult to find titles to be available through Sony Music Shop. Just another revenue generator?
As Terrie Lloyd comments on this week, junk sells, and seems to be a growing business. With high product turnover rates, the Japanese probably discard some of the newest, cleanest junk. And finding a taker is actually really easy. Just this past year, I’ve helped get rid of a long couch, filing [...]
Gien is opening in Tokyo. This is an interesting move. Smart? I don’t think so. Their target may be the aging population, but with a screwed up pension plan and high-costs of service in Japan, only few will have such expendable cash towards luxury tableware. Plus, only few can afford [...]
7 uppers, number 7 being a personal favorite.
This month’s Fast Company has a slew of good articles, but this one in particular presents just the tip of an iceberg. Anyone who has read Lou Gerstner’s Who Says Elephant’s Can’t Dance? will realize the continuing ripple of his turn-around of IBM even after his departure; restructured from a general ‘manufacturing’ mentality to [...]
Terrie Lloyd has updated his site, this time with an amusing anecdote on how Japanese animation is reaching overseas. Here’s the beginning:
The huge psychological effect that anime and manga can have on kids was brought home to us just a couple of days ago, when we got an e-mail from a 12-year old boy [...]
From Metafilter comes this story of one of the best pranks I’ve ever heard. Literally, a whole apartment…(aluminium) foiled. Even the toiletpaper, and every book on the bookshelf. Talk about commitment.
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