Japanese customers dearly enjoy the small luxuries of ryokan (traditional Japanese hotel ) life

Picture: Green Tea and a red bean paste snack

"One of the small luxuries of ryokan life ( a Japanese style inn) is the total lack of choice when it to comes to dining. I'm nevertheless thrilled that someone's done the thinking for me" 

Tyler Brule

Source: Brule has the right taste

Alex Williams

Review Section

Australian Financial Review

Friday 13, January, 2011, page 3

Japanese customers interested in other peoples blood types as clue to personality & temperament

Picture: Japanese celebrating

 Valentines day with chocolates

"Many Japanese people believe that each blood type has a certain personality and affinity, so it is common for them to ask someone their blood type or try to guess someone’s blood type by their personality."

Source: FYTTE (in February, 2012)

The importance of blood type in Japanese culture

LIFESTYLE JAN. 19, 2012

Japan Today

http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/the-importance-of-blood-type-in-japanese-culture

Japanese marketing versus western marketing - Fuji film versus Kodak - East versus West the new marketing game

Picture : Japanese mobile phone camera

" Fujifilm has mastered new tactics and survived. Film went from 60% of its profits in 2000 to basically nothing, yet it found new sources of revenue. Kodak, along with many a great company before it, appears simply to have run its course. After 132 years it is poised, like an old photo, to fade away."

Source: Technological change

The last Kodak moment?

Kodak is at death’s door; Fujifilm, its old rival, is thriving. Why?

Jan 14th 2012 | NEW YORK AND TOKYO | from the print edition

http://www.economist.com/node/21542796?fsrc=nlw%7Cmgt%7C1-18-2012%7Cmanagement_thinking