January 30, 2010
What do Japanese customers think of living in Kansai versus Kanto
Labels: Culture
January 29, 2010
Japanese customers spending up 16.3% in France in 2009 according to survey
Labels: Travel
January 28, 2010
Japanese consumer profile - Parasite singles
"Parasite singles," ..
a key Japanese demographic: unmarried women and men
in their 20s and early 30s living with their parents"
Source:Japan's Demographics Claim Fashion Victims,
BY JAMES SIMMS
NOVEMBER 26, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574559250288419052.html?
mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle
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Hot springs and sushi
Motorcycle Japan in 2010
Labels: Marketing
January 27, 2010
Japanese consumer culture expanding in Asia - Family Mart opens first convenience stores in Vietnam
Labels: Culture, innovation, Marketing
How to understand the consumer behaviour of Japanese tourists?
Labels: Journals
Japanese customers use of facial recognition software increasing
Labels: innovation, Marketing, Technology, Video
January 25, 2010
Japanese consumers pay on average 6 cents per mobile text message versus 21 cents in US according to survey
Labels: Technology
January 24, 2010
The Japanese consumer market in 2010 - Overview
Labels: Marketing
January 23, 2010
Japanese customers watch the close of the Nikkei 225 in 2009
Labels: Finance
January 22, 2010
Japanese consumers will need over 500,000 nurses by 2014 according to new research study
Labels: Lifestyle, research, Statistics
January 21, 2010
More than 820,000 Japanese tourists visited Taiwan in 2009
"More than 820,000 Japanese tourists visited Taiwan
(during the first ten months of 2009) ,
making Japan the number one source of Taiwan’s
foreign visitors,
even though the number constitutes an 8 percent drop compared to last year".
Source:Taiwan's mainland visitor numbers soar
Publication Date:11/26/2009, China Times
http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=80981&CtNode=414
Further reading:
Wind in your hair and the ride of your life!
Motorcycle Japan
Labels: Travel
January 20, 2010
Japanese e- book market estimated at 46.4 billion yen in 2008 and expected to rise
Labels: Marketing
January 19, 2010
A Japanese students four year journey studying abroad in Australia a documentary by JapaneseCustomer.com
Gaman - A Japanese Students Four Year Journey in Australia
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Japanese Customer: Movie Review: Nana - "a delightful pop fairy tale" - New York Times
Video: Nana
"Movie: “Nana,” a delightful pop fairy tale that speaks to young women in the language of sisterhood and self-direction."
Source: An Unlikely Friendship
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, Published: April 4, 2008
New York Times
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/movies/
04nana.html?ex=1207972800&en=e38de679e367d715&ei=5123&partner=BREITBART
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January 17, 2010
A Japanese students four year journey studying abroad in Australia a documentary by JapaneseCustomer.com
Gaman - A Japanese Students Four Year Journey in Australia
A holistic international education documentary
“total” study experience”
Editorial Reviews
"International study is an enormous undertaking for an individual in terms of resources, language, culture & risk. This documentary reveals the four year journey of a Japanese student studying in Australia. “Gaman” is a Japanese word that means endure. JapaneseCustomer.com reveals the students journey from beginning to end. He begins with the student’s life in Japan before study, then follows the student to Australia & the students return to Japan. A fascinating cultural documentary”
Book Description:
A holistic international education profile of a Japanese students four year journey in Australia.
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● Government ● Education institutions ● Third party suppliers ● Employers
Special Features:
● Holistic profile of a Japanese student’s journey – before, during & after study
● 26 page cultural marketing guide
● Unique perspectives of culture, language & experiences.
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Title: Gaman – A Japanese Student’s Four Year Journey in Australia
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Labels: Books about Japan, Culture, Education, Marketing, research
January 16, 2010
CD sales fall in 2009 as Japanese customers buy fewer
Labels: Lifestyle
January 15, 2010
Japanese consumers top five 2009 hit products revealed in new survey
Top 5 items "Dentsu's 2009 Hit Products survey"
1. Hybrid vehicles
2. Flu Masks
3. Low-priced fashion
4. Vehicles eligible for government subsidies
5. Energy-saving appliances that earn eco-points
Source:Japan consumers go frugal, green as economy sags
November 27th, 2009, Reuters: Lifestyle
http://www.rssnewsonline.com/rssnews/japan-consumers-go-frugal-green-as-economy-sags.html
Note: "Dentsu's 2009 Hit Products survey"
conducted over the Internet earlier this month with responses from 1,000 people:
Further reading:
Japan on a shoestring?
Visit Motorcycle Japan
Labels: Marketing
January 14, 2010
Japanese made anime DVD sales drop 18% on last years figures
"Sales of Japanese-made anime DVDs slid
18% from a year earlier to 72.8 billion yen
(about $800 million) in 2008,
after peaking at 93.7 billion yen in 2006,
according to the Japan Video Software Association"
Source:Discontent Seeps Into Japan's Anime Studios
Low Pay, Long Hours and Dwindling Demand Change the Plot for Animation Juggernaut
By YUKA HAYASHI
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703819904574551834260925714.html
Further viewing:
Yellow lines and blue sky.
Live the dream
Motorcycle Japan
Labels: Statistics
January 13, 2010
Japanese Customer: Appealing to the needs of new graduates - Aotagai
Aotagai - "some companies do not wait for applicants to come knocking.They grab the best beforehand. This practice is called aotagai"
Source: Japanese Family and Culture
JTB, 4th Edition, 2000,
ISBN: 4533020208, Page 27
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Reviews
Be part of the Asian Century in 2010
Study Abroad Japan
Labels: Culture
January 11, 2010
Japanese households have less than 7% of all assets in equities
"Japanese households have less
than 7% of their assets invested in stocks."
Source:
Absolute Return,
A Yen For Japan
Lisa W. Hess, 12.10.09, 11:40 PM EST
Forbes Magazine dated December 28, 2009
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1228/finance-japan-yen-currency-absolute-return.html
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See Japan in 2010 on two wheels, what are you waiting for?
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Labels: Statistics
January 10, 2010
Japanese supermarket below 1 trillion yen first time in 18 years as consumers reduce consumption
Labels: Food
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January 07, 2010
Japanese customers needs for safety and trust need to be met before you can sell to them
"I would say Japanese customers are among the toughest
and most discerning in the world
-- factors of safety, factors of trust,
play a bigger role in Japan,"
Bharat Rupani
Source:Undercut of the jeans a must in Japan: private brands
Peter Alford,The Australian, November 26, 2009
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/undercut-of-the-jeans-a-must-in-japan-private-brands/story-e6frg8zx-1225803918828
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Labels: Culture
Japanese convenience store rankings by number of stores 2009
1. 7-Eleven, 12,471 stores.
2. Lawson, 9,665 stores
3. FamilyMart, 8,700 stores
Source:Cash in kids clothes?, Ebiz news from Japan
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Labels: Statistics
January 06, 2010
Japanese consumers targeted to stimulate housing demand with low interest loans, planned to start 2010
Source: Japan To Introduce Low-interest Mortgage Program In 2010: Report
12/6/2009 9:27 AM ET
by RTT Staff Writer
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/USEconomicNews.aspx?Id=1148604&Category=Economic%20News&Node=&SimRec=1
January 04, 2010
A study of Chinese characters can help students of Japanese to better understand Japanese customers
"I thought then, and still think, that though an acquaintance
with Chinese characters may be found
useful by the student of Japanese"
Source: A Diplomat in Japan,
By Sir Ernest Satow,
ICG Muse Inc, USA page 14.
Further Reading:
Japan by Motorcycle?
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Labels: Education
January 03, 2010
Japanese Customer: A Kyoto festival that originated in the ninth century - Gion Matsuri - one of Japans most famous festivals
Gion Matsuri - "This historic festival originated in 9th century Kyoto"
Source: Japanese Family and Culture
JTB, 4th Edition, 2000,
ISBN: 4533020208, Page 88
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Labels: Travel
January 02, 2010
Six reasons why Japanese Customers are important to your business in 2010
1. Japan - the largest economy in Asia
"Asia has accounted for 50 percent of world GDP for most of human history".
Source: The Mad Hedge Fund Trader
November 24, 2009
http://www.japaninc.com/Taking_the_Long_View_on_Asia
2. Japan's GDP per person the highest in Asia
"the average Japanese generates more than ten times the GDP as the average Chinese, and the average Taiwanese, more than six times."
Source: Resistance Is Futile, You Will Be Bought
December 12, 2009:
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/china/articles/20091212.aspx
3. Japanese customers are still the world's best savers
"Households have saved up about ¥1.41 quadrillion in financial assets"
Source: Less work, more play to lift economy: DPJ
By AKIKO IKEDA and SATOSHI KAWANO
Bloomberg
The Japan Times: Saturday,
Sept. 12, 2009
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20090912n2.html
4. Japanese customers world's best hotel guests
1."The Japanese retained the top prize, with hoteliers worldwide naming them the world’s best tourists, ahead of the British and Canadians. Japanese tourists were ranked the quietest and most polite, as well as the cleanest and least likely to complain."
Conducted by online travel company Expedia
Source: World’s worst and best tourists revealed in new survey
July 9th, 2009
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/worlds-worst-and-best-tourists-revealed-in-new-survey_100215649.html
5. Japanese Customer Service - The world's best
1. "Perhaps it is easiest and most logical to conclude that Japan simply provides the best customer service training in the world and that it is derived from a culture of principles"
Source: Best customer service in the world
By ISAAC UCHIYAMA
Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20091220a6.html
6. Japanese customers are online
"Japan is one of the world’s most wired countries, with more than 90 million regular Internet users — of which three-quarters use fast broadband connections and two-thirds also log in from cellphones".
Source: In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader
By HIROKO TABUCHI
November 30, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/technology/internet/30google.html
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