by Brad Frischkorn | July 10, 2017 | Business, Economy, Employment, Technology, Travel | 0 Comments

TOKYO – LED lighting is fast becoming more than just the wave of the future; it is also helping to revive the past. Marketers at lighting retailer ReUdo hope that Japan’s stubborn love for its ancient traditions will help to spark sales of its decorative low-power...

by Brad Frischkorn | July 10, 2017 | Business, Economy, Finance, Technology | 0 Comments

TOKYO – Leave it to your big brother to bring home the coolest thing on the block. Brother Industries’ new mobile printers literally put the power of a print shop in one’s pocket. The company’s PocketJet series of machines, set to hit the retail market after April,...

by Brad Frischkorn | June 25, 2017 | Technology, Travel | 0 Comments

TOKYO  – Wearable robots could finally be migrating from the movie screen to the workplace floor. If so, the task of lifting heavy objects may at last cease to pose a worry. Nara-based ActiveLink Co., Ltd. is one company actively behind the effort to commercialize...

by Brad Frischkorn | June 23, 2017 | Kyushu | 0 Comments

TOKYO (JPN) – Saga Prefecture, located in one of Japan’s most southernmost regions on the island of Kyushu, sports the country’s lowest exposure to earthquakes. It may say something about a house party when the host boasts that attendees are less likely to suffer from...

by Brad Frischkorn | June 23, 2017 | Business, Technology | 0 Comments

TOKYO (JPN) – Online and newspaper “Help Wanted” ads are likely to include a new kind of job listing in the near future: skilled drone pilots ready for immediate work on solar panel farms, fire stations, and even at old folks homes. Japan’s rapid solar panel buildout,...

by Brad Frischkorn | June 23, 2017 | Business, Technology | 0 Comments

TOKYO -- The next buzz among Tokyoites may not be the latest cell phone app or chic fashion trend, but the sound of an overhead drone on the prowl. Considering Japan’s geography, demography, and fiscal debt, executives at General Atomics, the world’s dominant large...

by Brad Frischkorn | June 23, 2017 | Business, Technology | 0 Comments

Is Japan on the road to becoming a hydrogen-producing superpower? Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is betting that it will. Japan’s energy industry remains abuzz following the government’s June 2014 announcement of its “Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells,”...

by Charlie | June 16, 2017 | Thought for the Day | 0 Comments

猿も木から落ちる Japanese Idiom

by Charlie | June 16, 2017 | Lifestyle | 0 Comments

The beauty of Japanese Shrines

by Charlie | April 4, 2017 | Epicurean | 1 Comment

What is there to know about starting a business in Japan?