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Education in Japan


Japanese SNS Activities by Market Sector

About 3 years ago, I found myself doing some SNS based PR work for my friends, and one project lead to another. It has been excit­ing and fun to be involved within this new ground, and like every­thing else before in my life, work came in not as result of for­mal edu­ca­tion, but learn­ing by […]

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02 Feb, 2012 | Comments Off
Recent Ethnography Research, Particularly of Recruitment Challanges in Japan

Over the past three years, I have become more and more con­cerned with the dif­fi­culty in cre­at­ing highly excit­ing learn­ing ses­sion for for­eign inspiration/innovation seek­ing cus­tomers of both design com­pa­nies and end user com­pa­nies. It has a lot to do with recruit­ing process for peo­ple to research. I see fol­low­ing prob­lems in recruit­ing, some of […]

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22 Jan, 2012 | Comments Off
Understanding Japanese Culture Through Music

Joseph Camp­bell talked about the role of mythol­ogy in people’s lives.  It’s so true.  And it seems to me music tells so much about each cul­ture. Mod­ern Japan­ese choral music per­formed by chil­dren at schools show so many things about Japan­ese cul­ture.  Impor­tance of har­mony between peo­ple.  Work­ing together.  The lyrics of mod­ern choral music […]

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11 Apr, 2011 | No comments yet
Sunday morning rush hour in Tokyo suburbs

Sun­day morn­ing between 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. is chil­dren and youth’s rush hour in sub­urbs of greater Tokyo area.  It is the day for sports matches for kids who play sports.  Base­ball,  soc­cer, bas­ket­ball, ten­nis, mar­tial arts, vol­ley­ball and oth­ers, Japan­ese in gen­eral loves to train and play sports for­mally, and that cre­ates this […]

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25 Nov, 2010 | No comments yet
Finally, another entry at the beginning of school / business year

Maybe it�s because I helped my son pre­pare for the start of his col­lege entrance cer­e­mony and pur­chased the entire suites out­fit. So many young peo­ple in dark suites!! No, it isn�t because of my son�s sit­u­a­tion that I am notic­ing t

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06 Apr, 2006 | No comments yet
The Gap: Education & Business

The spring warmth has finally come for the past week here in Tokyo area. Trees are com­ing to life with soft greens and blos­soms in var­i­ous shades of pink, yel­low, white, and blue. While I was cycling, as usual, thoughts begun to take shape as words

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29 Mar, 2003 | No comments yet


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