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Outsourcing and JTP – Business News from Japan

On June 22nd a rather unique if small outsourcing company, called Japan Third Party (JTP), listed on the JASDAQ. Although at first glance the business looks like a pretty standard operation, the company is special in that a full 95% of its business comes from foreign technology firms (not end users). The remaining 5% […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

500 yen pay rises – Business News from Japan

About five years ago, we wrote about the phenomenon of Japanese bedrock manufacturing companies firing thousands of people. One after another, companies such as Matsushita, Nissan and others broke the bad news to employees aged 50 or over that their days were numbered. Among many others, we were stunned to witness that apparent death […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

Prime Minister Adam (Abe) Smith – Business News from Japan

Prime Minister Abe may be embarking on an interesting new (for Japan) tax strategy, especially if you’re a company shareholder. It appears that he is putting into place the building blocks needed to start making fundamental changes the country’s tax code — particularly in allowing corporations to keep more of their recent profits, in […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

Who Needs a Pension in Japan? – Business News

Pension in Japan
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is apparently considering a proposal to publicly honor wealthy retirees who decide not to collect their pension. Currently a pensioner who starts collecting their payments cannot opt out of the system, but the new proposal will allow wealthier pensioners to opt in and out depending […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

Leukemia Rates in Japan – Business News

Having cancer at any age is a shock, but it is never worse than when found in a child. Among Japan’s roughly 20m kids under the age of 15, about 1,600 of them have the most common form of cancer in children — Leukemia. Of the various types of this blood disease, approximately 80% […]

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JAC does IPO – Business News from Japan

In Japan’s recruiting world, apart from the 800lb gorilla called Recruit, there really isn’t any company that has bridged the various disciplines of the industry. Instead, success for those companies which have gone public has come from specializing in a particular skill area. There are the temp staffing agents, the online job boards, the […]

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Ryu Araki of Awakers Inc., Interview with Terrie Lloyd – Business News form Japan

Several weeks ago, one of our readers made the comment that while we have been commenting on firms doing IPO’s, it would be nice to hear about a firm that is still on the way. We thought it would be a good idea to interview some Japanese CEOs of promising companies, and try to […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

Mixi and Social Networking Services in Japan – Business News

For those of us still struggling to use our cell phones and PCs, there is a whole new world of Internet activity and interaction going on that we will have to stay up with if we want to sell online to anyone under the age of 30. One of these hot new business sectors […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

Lithium batteries safety issues – Business News from Japan

Back at the end of June (Terrie’s Take 380), we carried a news item about a Dell laptop that exploded into flames at a conference here in Japan and which was caught on video.

Little did we know at the time, but this presaged one of the largest recalls of electronics products in history, starting […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

Paper thin batteries – Business News from Japan

With its great public transport system, Japan is one of the world’s truly personally mobile cultures. There are portable gadgets of all kinds, not least of which include cell phones and music players. Have you ever wondered just how many batteries are needed annually to feed this mobility? We decided to check, and apparently […]

By Terry Lloyd|February 26th, 2014|Terries Take|0 Comments|

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