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Japanese Behavior


How I listen to music: iPod doesn’t do it for me anymore

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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22 Aug, 2007 | 1 comment
Japanese are awakening to its own cultural history

Cer­tain ratio of pop­u­la­tion dur­ing any time of the his­tory always fit the cat­e­gory of those who are awak­en­ing to its own cul­tural his­tory. How­ever, some­times, there is surge of such awak­en­ing, and it seem at least the mass media in Japan are now pick­ing up the topic of this awakening

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14 Sep, 2006 | 1 comment
Why Japanese loves Louis Vuitton and ignore major foreign IT companies

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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23 Jul, 2006 | No comments yet
Japanese Company’s Response to Information Security

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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05 Jul, 2006 | No comments yet
How fast behaviors change: Effects of “information security” phobia

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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11 Jun, 2006 | 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
Meeting with a group of Japanese

Con­fer­ence, meet­ings, work­shops with many par­tic­i­pants pro­ceed dif­fer­ently between for­eign cap­i­tal com­pa­nies and Japan­ese com­pa­nies (exclud­ing Sony and a few other west­ern­ized com­pa­nies) in Japan. With for­eign cap­tial com­pa­nies, they are used to west­ern way of communicating

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12 Jul, 2004 | 1 comment
Knowledge used for business management

Cur­rently, I am work­ing rig­or­ously with a for­eign cap­i­tal com­pany in Tokyo. 10 years ago, this move project would have been rel­a­tively simple

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13 Jun, 2004 | No comments yet
Emerging Expressive Generation

I noticed lately that many of the blogs writ­ten by Japan­ese are very expres­sive. They explic­itly describe how they feel, what they think about cer­tain mat­ter. A year ago, when there were not as many Japan­ese blog­gers as there are now, major­ity of them were about things. The lat­est, coolest things

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15 Apr, 2004 | No comments yet


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