JIN-398 -- Japan's Year-End Blue Lights

Over the past several years more and more Japanese have been lighting up their homes at the end of the year. In my Yokohama neighborhood stars twinkle in windows, glowing Santa Clauses climb rope ladders up the sides of houses, snowmen illuminate paths to homes...

FW-99 -- The Holidays: How to Survive the Last Minute Crush

Yet, at the same time, I couldn't let another week go by without commenting on the year end holidays of Christmas and Japanese New Year's - a bank buster if I ever saw one. What with presents, cards, shipping expenses, holiday meals, decorations, parties, and events, it can be an expensive time of year. Especially now that there are only a few weeks left!
So, below please enjoy my Top Three Frugal Holiday Tips - guaranteed to save you a few minutes (or yen) this season...

So Fast Group Offers a Rare Glimpse into Japan’s Logistics and Telemarketing Business

A Partner Who Understands How to Start a Business in Japan

You are a player in your own markets, but just now getting into the Japanese market. It’s been a long, hard slog so far, lining up distributors, customizing the products, and setting up the customer support infrastructure. Now it’s all systems go: you need your products to arrive at customers’ doorsteps accurately, on time, and in perfect condition. And you want this done without spending a fortune.

In fact, in the early stages, what you really need is a flexible, responsive partner who understands that simplicity can be best at the beginning, layering in levels of complexity as the costs of systemization can be justified. So Fast is just such a company. They match the solution with your situation and needs, not the other way around. They won’t suggest complex systems until you’re ready. Instead, So Fast focuses on the human side of business, offering flexibility of resources and availability so that you can meet the demands of starting up your business in Japan. Also they can provide one-to-one marketing and CRM solutions to execute your B to C marketing needs nationwide.

Tour 1: Seeing is Believing! The So Fast Logistics Warehouse Tour

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JIN-397 -- The Education Debate: Reaching for a Classic

Speaking in defense of the revision of Clause 2 of the Basic Education Law, which calls for "Respect for tradition and culture, and love for the nation and land that nurtured them," at a meeting of the House of Councilors' Select Committee on Education on November 22, Bunmei Ibuki, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, said...

TT-404 -- 2006 in Review, ebiz news from Japan

2006 has been an eventful and productive year for business in Japan. This was the year that we marked the longest period of business expansion since War II, longer even, than the Izanagi boom in the mid-1960's. Being immersed in the noise and bustle which is Tokyo...

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WW-158 -- Dramatic Start of Mobile Number Portability

Misleading advertisements, a complaining CEO on television, a crashing customer registration system - it all happened within 72 hours after the mobile number portability scheme was introduced on October 24. What has been the impact so far on the mobile subscriber base of the three large carriers?

GW-264 -- Kenwood KSC-SS10, Kenwood HD10GB7, Seagrand XR003 X-REX

The Gist: For car audio fans this week comes Kenwood's "KSC-SS10" satellite speakers. They're already available in Japan for around 25,000 yen per pair.

Brief Note of Praise for JIN

Dear editor(s),
I've been very impressed by Mr. Sabin's articles of late in the J@panInc. Newsletter (JIN). In particular, I thought his piece of the visit by the Emperor and Empress, and the most recent piece of the Japanese peoples' reverence for their language, showed a deft appreciation for the nuances of the culture that usually escape most foreign observers, myself included.

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TT-403 -- Mobage phenomenon, ebiz news from Japan

According to Tom Sato, what's hot right now is the cell phone site Mobage Town, from mobile content developer Dena. "Moba-ge" is a contraction of mobile games, and is a cross between a Social Network System (SNS) and a games portal. Essentially it serves up loads of games and provides rewards that the players can collect and trade. The kicker is that because it is SNS based, it has experienced a humungous word-of-mouth growth over the last 9 months...

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