TT-844 (Tourism Edition) -- Why is Chinese Per-visitor Spending Starting to Fall?

The Nikkei newspaper started running articles about the peaking of the inbound tourism income bubble, pointing out that since the end of 2015 there has been a downwards shift in per-visitor tourist spending.

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TT-843 -- How the Failure of Abenomics Leads to the Record Sales of Safes. E-biz news from Japan.

There has been a surge in cash hoardings, with an extra 6.2% ten thousand yen bills going into circulation last year, the highest jump in demand since 2002.

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TT-842 (Tourism Edition) -- Why Expedia is Not Doing Well (Yet) in the Japan Inbound Market

The local operation of Expedia is very Japanese. However, like other "Japanified" foreign-firm branches, they have lost their ability to recognize and respond to external trends.

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TT-841 -- Mis-allocation of Funds: Zombies and Parasites vs. Start-ups. E-biz news from Japan.

When it comes to small company support, the words "vested interest" and "parasitic behavior" come to mind rather than "nurturing" and "creation".

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TT-840 (Tourism Edition) -- New Minpaku Rules Make Most Airbnb Listings Illegal

Would Airbnb's business model be allowed under the new minpaku rules or not? Restrictive provisions of the new rules make it clear that most Airbnb renters will still be breaking the law.

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TT-839 -- Trust, Not Lawsuits Will Build Nutraceuticals Market, ebiz news from Japan

Japanese companies are nothing if not secretive about successful B2B products and processes, especially in the emerging field of nutraceuticals.

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TT-838 (Tourism Edition) -- Before Arriving, What Do Tourists Most Want to Do in Japan?

According to the Japan Tourism Agency quarterly tourist survey, the number one thing that foreign tourists want to experience before coming to Japan is to try authentic Japanese food.

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TT-837 -- Robert Rann, the Entrepreneur Behind Grape Off, e-biz news in Japan

We first came across Rann shortly after he arrived in Japan, when he was helping out a media firm, and a little after that when he was appointed the CEO of an internet recruiting firm called Asia-net.

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TT-836 (Tourism Edition) -- Government Attitude to Inbound Tourism Changes

The Shoryudo project is a collaborative effort by the nine prefectures of Shizuoka, Aichi, Gifu, Nagano, Mie, Shiga, Fukui, Ishikawa, and Toyama, to develop their rural destinations for foreign tourists.

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TT-835 -- BitCoin and Chinese Real Estate Purchases, e-biz news from Japan

The government declared in late December that it considers Bit coin a security like any other and will shortly legislate to regulate the trading of Bit coins by corporates.

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