Tokyo


A Very Japanese Company

Toshimichi Miyashita believes in harmony and hard work. That's led him to build a very profitable company.  Read more

Dateline: Tokyo

The Japanese have a phrase, haragei, to describe the form of nonverbal communication operative in companies in which a more traditional -- and hierarchica...  Read more

Running The Reality Principle

In this litigious society of ours, the rights of one constitutional entity almost inevitably bump up against the rights of another, with the resolution of...  Read more

Let Them Eat Pies

An elderly couple in Hawaii has finally come up with an American product that the Japanese seem to want as much as Americans want Japanese VCRs and cars: ...  Read more

The Once and Future Traveler

A travel-management expert describes how future technology might change the way we do work on the road.  Read more

Going Through Customs

Americans are selling the Japanese everything from shampoo to catering trucks. The trick is to play by their rules.  Read more

Creators of the New Japan

Why Japan's future will depend more and more on small, innovative research- and development-oriented companies.  Read more

Taking The Trade Wars To Japan's Own Soil

A group of U.S. electronics companies have taken their fight to Japan. Talk about protectionism has dominated the headlines lately, but now many companies...  Read more

Timely Travel Tips on Demand

Service provides up-to-the-moment travel information for any destination requested by a subscriber.  Read more

Inc. 500 Countdown: Vosges Haut-Chocolat

Inc.com is counting down to the unveiling of Inc. magazine's Inc. 500 list with a profile a day of one of this year's honorees. Check back Monday...  Read more

Mr. Iacocca, Meet Mr, Honda

Chrysler's famous chairman may be the best of America's auto men, but as a manager and an industrialist, he doesn't hold a candle to Japan's most successful ...  Read more

Right Solution, Wrong Problem

Inc. Technology's editor offers an overview of the issue along with some comments.  Read more

Is Japan An Open Market?

The answer to this question used to be a flat no. Until recently, most Japanese would have freely acknowledged that their government nurtured domestic in...  Read more

Gizmos for the Road

There are more travel technologies than ever to stay connected while doing business away from the main office.  Read more

Gucci's Home Away From Rome

Just what are the limits of a boutique brand like Gucci? That's the question observers are asking as the company puts the finishing touches on Read more

A World Of Goods

International trading companies such as Boles & Co. ("Our Man in Zurich, Tokyo, and Hong Kong," January) may become large and profitable, but they won...  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

"theory F"

All those studies on Japanese management overlook the one ingredient that makes it all work: Fear.  Read more

The New Issei

How a few Japanese managers broke free of Theory F by exporting themselves to America.  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without...

Cake maker Sylvia Weinstock can whip up multiple multi-tiered confections in one of her favorite things: a 90-quart mixer.  Read more

Business Trips Don't Have to be All Business

Being away on business shouldn't mean doing away with enjoyment. It should mean doing things differently. Get an expert's tips on how to get the most out of ...  Read more

Unlimited Partnerships

Close and enduring relationships between big business and smaller companies help keep Japanese industry productive and innovative.  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

Turning Japanese (Entrepreneurial)

Is a start-up wave sweeping Japan?  Read more

Trading, American Style

I'm rather struck by the fact that the author of the article on Jack Boles's trading company ("Our Man in Zurich, Tokyo, and Hong Kong," January) focuses ...  Read more

A Smoker's Airline?

A variety of newspapers and news services reported this weekend that a German entrepreneur plans to launch an airline that caters exclusively to smokers. ...  Read more

The American Model Goes Global

When Jean Ichbiah broke away from the Paris-based computer giant Bull (formerly called Cii-Honeywell Bull) in 1980 to start his own software company, he f...  Read more

Pint-size Computers

As of now, most portable computers are more deadweight than lightweight. Still, if you are looking for a complete business machine to go home to office, you ...  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

Beware The Trojan Horse

Inside those Japanese auto plants are the seeds of destruction for thousands of small U.S. companies  Read more

Stage Might

Director Ben Cameron talks about the changing role of live theater in the digital age.  Read more

Inc. 500 Countdown: Vosges Haut-Chocolat

Inc.com is counting down to the unveiling of Inc . magazine's Inc. 500 list with a profile a day of one of this year's honorees. Check back Monday th...  Read more

Tailor-Made in America

A business expert explains how craftmanship practiced at so-called "Craftories" is inventing a new competitive edge.  Read more

Mail

Learning to Enjoy the Small Things The stories of Jay Goltz and the other entrepreneurs who chose to "be great instead of big" hit close to home...  Read more

Fire and Motion

I’ve read a ton of books on competition and strategy, and none of them are as useful as this one simple concept.  Read more

Dossier

Answer the call of Shangri-la; go virtual at the Waldorf-Astoria; or work out in the privacy of your hotel room with your own "fit kit."  Read more

Fire and Motion

I’ve read a ton of books on competition and strategy, and none of them are as useful as this one simple concept.  Read more

Extra! Extra! U.S. Wins Semiconductor Wars

News of the United States' victory in the semiconductor wars goes unreported.  Read more

Do The Japanese Make Good Partners?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Often it's a matter of size -- of your firm and theirs.  Read more

"I have one life, and it must come together."

Inc. gathered five entrepreneurs to define what The Good Life means to them and how they're living it.  Read more