TT-868 -- US$5 Lettuces and the Move to Vegetable Factories, e-biz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on October 10, 2016

There are no outside-grown perishable (seasonal) vegetables for sale - only those that can be stored or from greenhouses. So what's going on?

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TT-867 (Tourism Edition) -- Real Estate Honeypots in the Countryside

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on October 3, 2016

The one thing with all types of visitors is the problem which I call "nexus point real estate", meaning the availability of accommodation in key tourist locations around the country.

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TT-866 -- Diversity as a Strategy in Finding Employees as a Start-up, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on September 26, 2016

One way to cope with start-up recruiting is to become more diverse in your selection pool. Looking at the Japanese labor market we can carve it up into roughly seven segments.

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TT-865 (Tourism Edition) -- Putting Lipstick on Old Airplanes

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on September 19, 2016

I'd forgotten how much we take good inflight entertainment for granted these days, and how frustrating and "vacant" the traveling experience used to be. I guess we had books back then... :-)

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TT-864 -- Moving Foreign Exchange Just Got Interesting, e-biz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on September 12, 2016

UK-based Transferwise solves a number of problems with PayPal and could possibly become THE money transfer solution for foreigners in Japan over the next couple of years.

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TT-863 (Tourism Edition) -- Dabbling in the Medical Inbound Tourism Sector

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on September 5, 2016

The opportunities in the inbound medical tourism market are actually very compelling. We were approached by a B2B2C Systems Integration company that wants to get into the medical tourism market.

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TT-862 -- Why NHK Can't Force You to Pay Their Annual Fees, e-biz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on August 29, 2016

It was with some interest that we saw news on Friday that NHK has for the first time lost a law suit over its ability to enforce collection of its viewer fees.

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TT-Holiday Notice -- But... with a Short Note About Defense Spending This Year

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on August 22, 2016

A brief comment about the news that Japan's defense budget is surging to a record.

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TT-861 (Tourism Edition) -- Recent Trends in Inbound Tourism, Cycling Tour

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on August 8, 2016

Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) numbers released at the end of July showed that foreign inbound travelers for June 2016 were up a surprising 23.9% over June 2015. What is driving the renewed surge in visits?

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TT-860 -- How to Deal with a Shortage of Data Scientists, e-biz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on August 1, 2016

Japanese major tech firms are starting to use M&A as one way to acquire the necessary expertise. Last year Hitachi Data Systems bought a leading data integration, visualization and analytics company called Pentaho.

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