Can you name a Japanese company with a US educated CEO? One with a CEO and a Chairman who both have MBAs from different, well respected US Universities? What if I told you that the company has sa...
Thinking of starting up your own company in Japan? Why not, Japan is the home of the small enterprise. The tax system is set up to promote large tax holidays for owners of small businesses and th...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/gaijin-entrepreneur-company-name/
Over the weekend it has emerged that Nozoe Kuniaki (野副州旦), the financially savvy president of Fujitsu, who "resigned due to health reasons" back in Sep ‘09 was actually blackmailed into...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/fujitsu-ceo-blackmailed-into-resigning/
Online shopping has been firmly established in Japan thanks to the likes of early adopters such as Yahoo Japan and Rakuten. The market is growing, and recently, more and more quality English lang...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/english-language-ecommerce-sites-offer-latest-japanese-products/
If you haven’t already heard, news broke a week or two that a small firm based in Kawasaki, Teramento (テラメント) Corporation falsely reported to have acquired a 51% stake in six large (g...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/teramento-falsely-acquires-sony-toyota-and-more/
Who is Japan’s little known rice growin’ financial hotshot? The UK has it’s first bank run in 150 years. Citibank fired it’s CEO. The whole financial world is reeling from the financial m...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/norinchukin-bank-buying-up-on-subprime-loans/
On October 5, 2007, two drug stores announced their intent to merge. CFS and Ain Pharmaciez. Never heard of either? Interestingly they are both within the top 10 drug store chains in Japan and if...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/japans-new-corporate-governance-cfs-hac-ain/
The famous Tonkatsu Sauce maker "Bulldog", facing a potential takeover by the foreign investment firm Steel Partners, was saved last week in a disturbing effort by the Japanese courts to prevent ...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/bull-dog-sauce-feeds-steel-partners-poison-pill/
Ever since reading a recent article on stippy.com about the under-representation of female CEOs in Japan, I’ve been racking my brains to find one. My first thoughts were of Tomoyo Nonaka of San...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/female-japanese-ceo-emura-rika/
There remains this enormous and wicked sociocultural myth. It is this: Hard work is all there is. Work hard and the world respects you. Work hard and you can have anything you want. Work really e...
https://www.stippy.com/japan-work/why-do-the-japanese-work-so-hard/