Japan

Google Intervenes in Japan

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. ...  Read more

Quake-damaged Cables Impacting Communications

Some of the undersea cables off the coast of Japan shared by the world's telecomm companies have suffered significant damage from the 8.9 earthquake ...  Read more

The Earthquake Entrepreneur

The disaster in Japan has put the spotlight on businesses that provide earthquake detection technology, plus the rest of the day's news.  Read more

U.S. Leads in International Patent Applications

March 12, 2007 -- The United States accounted for more than a third of total patent applications filed with the World International Paten...  Read more

The Power of Purpose

How can a statistician working in Japan over fifty years ago help your business? You'd be surprised.  Read more

The Timelessness of Deming

If ever you start thinking you've got hurdles to overcome, remember Japan. At the end of WWII, companies there were facing badly damaged infrastructure, l...  Read more

7 Tips for Foreign Business Travel

Maximize your time spent overseas. Proper preparation before your departure will not only make your business trip a safe one but more productive.  Read more

Turning Japanese (Entrepreneurial)

Is a start-up wave sweeping Japan?  Read more

10 Reasons to Start a Business

Each day,  Inc.'s  reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:<...  Read more

How to: Trade Private Stock, Diversify, Save a Project

5 warning signs your project is in danger. Web Worker Daily<...  Read more

The Love Hotel

Travel to Japen and visit a "Love Hotel," a high tech haven where people use technology to keep liaisons secret.  Read more

Japanese Venture Capital

Review of a book about tapping into Japanese venture capital markets.  Read more

Summer Reading

Two summer reading suggestions: 'Outnation' by Jonathan Rauch 'Twenty-First Century Management' by Hesh Kestin.  Read more

What About Japan?

FaxPoll results on prevailing sentiments about Japan.  Read more

Network: May 1991

Network resources.  Read more

Making It

A quote from "The Next Century," by David Halberstam theorizing about the reasons for Japan's economic success.  Read more

Hotline

Hotline information paragraphs: April 1990  Read more

Sign Of The Times

Japan announces a series of initiatives to make themselves an 'import superpower.'  Read more

Second Thoughts

Corruption and decay in the Japanese economy; is it really so wise for the U.S. economy to emulate Japan's?  Read more

International: What Next?

Survey: Do Europeans believe their unification in 1992 will protect Europe from the U.S. and Japan?  Read more

Innocents Abroad

With the dollar's recent decline, export opportunities are palpably greater today than at any other time in the past decade. Yet many U.S. companies -- i...  Read more

Japan is the second-biggest market for technology products in the world, but most U.S. companies find it impossible to crack. The primary reason isn't tr...  Read more

A Theory By Any Other Name

"Theory F" (April) merits in "A" for Japan bashing but an "F" for itself. To state that fear is the force that makes Japanese management work is nonsense...  Read more

Wheel Of Misfortune;

TOPY CORP. ISN'T QUITE REINVENTing wheels, but it is making them differently. About five months ago, the Japanese-owned company began making steel wheels ...  Read more

International;

JAPAN'S MUCH BALLYHOOED "VENture business" boom may be going bust. In the past six months alone, more than 25 of that country's growth companies have gon...  Read more

Trading Places: Are America and Japan Locked in a Trade War?

Japanese and American entrepreneurs gather for a freewheeling discussion of the differences that divide them, and the ventures that may bring them together.  Read more

"If you come to Japan with the feeling that America is number one, you will not be successful in this country. Americans come to Japan and Speak English b...  Read more

West Meets East

The divergent and disparate comments by American and Japanese businessmen in "Trading Places" (Face-to-Face, July) reflect reality. What the growing Amer...  Read more

The Amazing Race, By William H. Davidson. John Wiley Sons, 605 Third Ave., New York, Ny 10158; 270 Pp., $17.95.

No alarmist he, a business teacher and consultant bets heavily on the American side coming down the homestretch in the race for technological superiority ...  Read more

Rising Sons

The success of American growth companies has inspired the first generation of japanese entrepeneurs in the past four decades.  Read more

Give Government Research Back To Entrepreneurs

Federal research laboratories have no business working on gas heaters, solar power, or other programs that compete directly with the private sector.  Read more

Is The Economy Strangled By Our Laws?

One of the greatest barriers to productivity is our tendency to sue one another.  Read more

Nobel Prizes Aren't Enough

Better support of small company R D will help us lead the world in innovative products as well as basic research.  Read more

Where Small Companies Are Important

Big business may dominate Japan's image abroad, but 91% of Japanese private employees work in firms employing fewer than 500 workers.  Read more

Even Japan Is No Paradise For Small Business

The Japanese Communist party's periodic festivals are among the best places to meet small businessmen who are willing to talk about their problems. Japan...  Read more

A Rising Sun, Finally

Japan's long-awaited revival is getting under way. This not another false start. Bad deflation is ebbing, business is reviving and the stocks are very ch...  Read more

Seniority

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A Yen For Lending;

AFTER BEING DELAYED AND stalled by half a dozen other financial institutions, California developer Ralph Rittenhouse found a local bank that was willing n...  Read more