Upcoming Events/Announcements
Entrepreneur's Handbook Seminar June 2nd, 2012
If you have been considering setting up your own company, find out what it takes to make it successful. Terrie Lloyd, founder of over 17 start-up companies in Japan, will be giving an English-language seminar and Q&A on starting up a company in Japan.
This is an ideal opportunity to find out what is involved, and to ask specific questions that are not normally answered in business books. All materials are in English and are Japan-focused.
For more details: http://www.japaninc.com/entrepreneur_handbook_seminar
The number of companies being started up in 2009 and 2010 exceeded the number shutting down.
There are huge waiting lists for urban mothers to get their kids into day care centers.
A survey found that just 57% of Japanese students are interested in studying abroad.
There has been a show down going on over the restarting of the nation's 53 nuclear reactors.
In February multiple major firms in the printing industry have predicted losses on ordinary operations.
Yoyogi Park was packed with parties hoping to catch the first blossoms while getting tipsy.
Reliable high-speed internet and online applications have made remote applications sufficiently viable.
There are numerous announcements of the formation of funds and incubation facilities for Japanese start-ups.
Those of us who are resident foreigners in Japan will have some big changes coming up on July 9th.
According to the Japan Fitness Association, fitness is a big business, with 3.95m members of fitness clubs in 2009.
Tokyo University (Todai) announced that it would change the start of the university year from spring to fall.
If your email account gets disabled by ATT, you can't get help online because you need to log-in.
Low-cost Carrier Peach Aviation will start flying domestic legs at greatly reduced rates over existing airlines.
Bicycle maker Asahi predicted it would close its FY2011 in February with a massive increase in profits.
The rate of vacant offices has been rising steadily, with a surplus in large floor space buildings and also overall.