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June 20, 2020

90 year old Japanese grandma is worlds oldest gamer





90-year-old grandma Hamako Mori holds a Guinness World Record as the world's oldest gaming 
You Tuber according to the Herald Sun Newspaper.

Watch her play in the video below (in Japanese) 

For English subtitles, click the CC button, settings English for English subtitles





Source: Gran's game for YouTube
Herald Sun Newspaper
Monday 8th June 2020
Page 6



June 19, 2020

Japanese Customer: Bloggers changing the way customers gain information about products and services - marketing revolution





"Bloggers seek information on subjects that interest them"


Source: Book Review of Naked conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel Reviewed by Erik Gordon,
Marketing Management magazine
Sept/Oct 2006 edition, page 51
American Marketing Association


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Japanese Customer: Honda unveils technology that can sense brain signals and use them to control functions





"Honda Motor unveiled technology that can sense brain signals and use them to control functions like keyboards, cell phones or prosthetic limbs"


Source:The small print
By Alex Vega
Metropolis, Jun 9 - 15, 2006
www.metropolis.co.jp



Japanese Customer: Japanese music industry pushed for Ipod tax but it was rejected by government committee



"in early December a government committee rejected the Japanese music industry's request for a so called Ipod Tax"


Source:2005: Year of the iPod in Japan
By Steve McClure
Daily Yomiuri
Thursday, December 22, 2005



Learn about study in Japan at Study Abroad Japan

November 13, 2018

90 percent of Japanese believe robots will replace humans






"Nearly 90% think robots and computers will be doing much of the work currently done by humans in the next half century. Some 83% see this causing greater inequality, 74% believe people will have trouble finding work and 58% think automation will not generate better jobs."


Source:
Japanese fear automation will take more jobs than foreigners
Pew survey: Only 15% of adults feel youths will be better off than their parents
ANDREW SHARP, Nikkei Asian Review deputy politics and economy news editor

November 13, 2018 




August 05, 2016

Many Chinese consumers seeking to buy Japanese heat induction rice cookers

Many Chinese consumers seeking to buy Japanese heat induction rice cookers



"(Chinese Consumers) many are seeking out Japanese made (rice cooking) machines that use heat-induction technology. While sold in China, the models are expensive due to high import tariffs"


Source: Rice Cooker 'litmus test' for China economy by Te-Ping Chen, The Wall STreet Journal, The Australian, Friday August 5th, 2016, page 25.


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June 06, 2016

"Japan is one of those places you just gotta go to" Mikey Cahill

Carp banners on boys day Japan Copyright 1999
Picture: Carp banners on boys day Japan




"...if you haven' between to Japan, then save your yen for a plane ticket...Japan is one of those places you just gotta go to" 

Mikey Cahill



Source: Livelist
By Mikey Cahill
Herald Sun Newspaper
Saturday 12th July 2014, page 19



May 17, 2016

Tailor your web content to appeal to Japanese customers says Australian Founder



Japanese key board Copyright  2010



Picture: Japanese Keyboard



"Bellroy is a Melbourne (Australia) based business that was founded in 2010 with the core objective of slimming down and simplifying the male wallet... co-founder, Andy Fallshaw..." in Japan they don't accept this as their coins have a greater value and because there's less acceptance of credit cards many of their transactions involve coins. And so when we launched our wallets [in Japan] there was only one wallet that took coins and then we had to find subtle ways to give functionality to wallets before the Japanese would really start to buy them."..Fallshaw says Bellroy also tailored its Japanese web content to appeal to a local audience."


Source: Blundstone captures export markets
March 13, 2015
The AGE Newspaper
By Jeremy Loadman

December 18, 2015

Japanese Customer News December 19th 2015















1

“43% of Japanese consumers are unsatisfied with the value of digital subscription services and will need convincing before they sign"

Source: Tuesday December 15th, 2015 MIS Asia, Web, Capitalizing on Asia’s growing appetite for digital content.

2

“Job Ad - Seek.com.au Australia...Japanese Customer service support analyst - 12 month Contract - view to extend job, Melbourne - Call Centre ...opportunity to join global GIANT for Customer focused candidates with knowledge of IT"

Source: Seek.com.au, web, Monday December 14th, 2015.



3

“The Seikasu Club Consumers Co-operative Union (SCCCU) of Japan , teamed up with the Centre for Food Safety in Washington to oppose (GM Salmon)"

Source: December 10th , 2015, Interfish.com, Japanese consumer union opposes GM Salmon







4

“has kept unemployment low, real wage growth has been stagnant, giving Japanese consumers little reason to increase their spending either"

Source: Fortune, December the 9th, 2015, Why Japan’s economic troubles should worry the US.



5

“They looked slightly larger than those familiar to Japanese Consumers” "Most imported avacados are of the Haas variety"
Source: December 8th, 2015, Chicago Tribune, In Japan 7 years of labor bare fruit with avocado crop.








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#2015,

December 11, 2015

Japanese Customer News December 12th 2015






















“Japan is likely to win a multi-billion-dollar contract to build India’s first hogh speed railway, a 500 km high-speed railway link between Mumbai and Ahmedabad…valued at about AUS $20.4 billion”

Source: Japan nears India bullet train train deal by Mitsuru Obe and Rajesh Roy, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian Newspaper, Thursday 10th December, 2015, page 24.









● “The president of Nippon Life Insurance says his company will allow policy holders to list same-sex partners as beneficiaries”


Source” The Small Print, December 10th 2015, by Steve Trautlein, Metropolisjapan.com










“Where does Australia invest?

Rank Country AUS $Billions % of total

4. Japan 69.6 3.6

Source: Based on ABS catalogue 5352.0 September 2015”




Source: Turnbull throws down gauntlet, by Glenda Korporal, The Australian, Friday December 11th, 2015, page 37.










● “Worlds top five by revenue

For Games Mobile Games

China $US 22.2 billion China $US 6.5 billion

US $US 22 billion Japan $US 6.2 billion

Japan $US 12.3 billion US $US 6 billion

S Korea $US 4 billion S Korea $US 1.9 billion”



Source: Tencent looks abroad for games domination, by Juro Osawa, WSJ, The Australian Newspaper, Tuesday 8th December, 2015, page 25.
















“the most inspiring virtual reality VR came from Sony. Its VR headset for PlayStation 4 lets you explore a 3D, virtual environment, you can walk around it and, using move controllers, you can even pick up objects”



Source: Years top personal tech innovations on the money, by Chris Griffith, The Australian Newspaper, Tuesday December 8th, 2015, page 28.







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December 06, 2015

Japanese Customer 2015 The Year in Review by

Japanese Customer the year in review 2015


















Japanese Customer the year in review 2015




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November 27, 2015

Japanese Customer News 28th November 2015























“Australia and Japan have agreed to significantly increase defence co-operation with more joint military exercises and a closer trilateral relationship with the US”

Source: Defence ties with Japan to deepen by Brendan Nicholson, The Australian, Monday 23rd November, 2015, page 6.




“The population of Japanese in their 20’s - who use love hotels to escape from small and crowded family homes - fell from 18 million in 2000 to 13 million in 2013”

Source: Japan dumps ‘love hotels’ for backpacker hostels by Robin Harding, Financial Times, Australian Financial Review, Monday 23rd November, 2015, page 19.




“According to the National Police Association, the number of love hotels is declining by 2 per cent a year , from 6,259 in 2010 to 5,940 in 2013”

Source: Japan dumps ‘love hotels’ for backpacker hostels by Robin Harding, Financial Times, Australian Financial Review, Monday 23rd November, 2015, page 19.





“How they rate % Student Class

Country Teachers Change time at teaching

Salaries 2010 – 2013 school time

(hrs/year) (hrs/year)

Australia $78,305 6.10 1010 879

South Korea $71,736 4 648 667

Germany $87,902 3.9 683 800

Japan $67,498 0.8 762 736

USA $82,558 6.3 967 n/a

Source: OECD”


Source: Longer hours, but Aussie teachers among best paid, by Natasha Bita, The Australian, Wednesday November 25th, 2015, p2.



“Japanese stand-up comedienne Yuriko Kotani won this year’s BBC Radio New Comedy Award for aspiring comics last Friday, beating five other finalists at the Comedy Store in London with a five-minute act blending humour and sarcasm.”

Source: Japanese woman wins BBC newcomer comedy award, by Magdalena Osumi, Nov 25, 2015, Japan Times Online, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/11/25/entertainment-news/japanese-woman-wins-bbc-newcomer-comedy-award/#.Vlj-B30Rp2_



“Japan’s new super-fast trains – capable of travelling in excess of 600 km/h and which are directed underground as much as possible – have arrived at the centre of high-speed rail debate in Australia”

Source: Superfast trains “can turbocharge regions’ by Dennis Shanahan, The Australian, Thursday November 26th 2015, page 5.



“Tiwi Islanders have finally succeeded in a 30 year battle to bring the first shipment of woodchip grown in plantation on their homeland north of Darwin to market, with about 38,000 tonnes due to depart for Japanese owned paper mills this weekend…Under a five year deal with Japanese conglomerate Mitsui to supply up to 400,000 tonnes of chips or eight to ten shiploads annually, the plantation project could generate $150
million”

Source: Tiwi woodchips will fetch millions in Japan, by Amos Aikan, The Australian, Thursday November 26th, 2015, page 6.



“The national average of Japan’s minimum wage was 780 yen (AUS $8.80) per hour last fiscal year, so a 3 per cent increase (18 yen) would still not buy more than a bowl of ramen noodles….Mr.Abe told cabinet ministers he eventually wants to raise the weighted national minimum wage to 1000 yen per hour”

Source: Japan to raise minimum wage, by Stanley White, Reuters, AFR, Friday 27th November, 2015, page 31.


“Most Memorable Overseas Dining

“This would be the 11-course meal I had at Saami, a traditional Japanese restaurant set in a 15th-century building in the hills overlooking the beautiful city of Kyoto. The attention to detail and presentation were like nothing I have seen before”

Melanie Cochrane, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Merchant Services, Japan and Asia Pacific, American Express

Source: Traveller, Life & Leisure, Australian Financial Review, Weekend, Friday November 27th - 29th, 2015, LI2.


“An Actors Revenge (114 minutes) Rated M in Australia Japanese director Kon Ichikawa is best-known in the west for this theatrical, gender-bending melodrama about a kabuki actor (Kazuo Hasegawa) bent on avenging the deaths of his parents. The stylised wide-screen imagery often approaches delirium – especially the use of colour against a dark background, with much of the skulduggery occurring at night.”

Source: Our pick of what's showing on the big screen, by Jake Wilson, The Age Online, November 27, 2015
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/our-pick-of-whats-showing-on-the-big-screen-20151125-gl6sgt.html#ixzz3sjmuHjNa










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November 20, 2015

Japanese Customer News November 21st 2015



















“Japan grows more slowly than other countries at the best of times, largely because its work force is shrinking, so even small setbacks can easily send it into reverse. The latest recession was its fifth since the global financial crisis of 2008, though by some measures, including unemployment, the picture looks less dire”
Source: Japan Economy Contracts 0.8%, Returning to Recession, By Jonathon Soble, New York Times, November 15th, 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/business/international/japan-economy-contracts-0-8-returning-to-recession.html?ref=asia



“(Most popular boys name in 2015 was) the kanji for “harbor/port” (and three different ways to read it) takes the number one spot this year. Perhaps it’s the parents’ desire for their child to travel the world? …. (Girls names) The most popular names are Sakura (“cherry blossom”) and Riko (“lavender child” in this instance). These weren’t even on the list in 2013….Sakura appears again at number five with a kanji (the top-slot one, you’ll notice, forgoes Chinese characters altogether and is instead written in phonetic hiragana script) shows just how popular the name is.”

(Japanese parents not only pick out a name they like for their child, but, in the majority of cases, kanji characters they like as well.)
Japanese Baby Names 2015

Boys names 2015, 1. Sou, Minato, Ichika, 2. Itsuki, Tatsuki, 3. Ren, 4. Hinata, Haruta, 5. Asaghi, Haruki, Tomoharu,. Girls names 2015, 1. Sakura, 2. Riko, 3. Aoi, 3. Wakana, 5. Sakura, Sara.”


Source: Japan’s top baby names for 2015, by Scott Wilson, RocketNews24, Nov. 16, 2015.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/japans-top-baby-names-for-2015



“The number of Chinese travellers to Japan in October helped push the total number of foreign visitors during the month to 1.83 million, the second – highest on record for a single month. That brought the total for the first 10 months of the year to 16.3 million…Chinese tourists accounted for nearly half of the Y1 trillion ($AUS 11.3 billion) that foreign visitors spent in the country from July through to September ( The Japan Tourism Agency)”

Source: Middle-class Chinese beef up Japan’s tourism push, by Jun Hongo, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian, Friday November 20th, 2015, page 25.



● “The sales goal set by Toshiba for its Internet of things – related business by 2010 estimated Y300 billion”
Source: The Small Print, November 19th 2015, by Steve Trautlein, Metropolis Japan, www.metropolisjapan.com




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October 20, 2015

Energy storage in Japan set to grow

Video:

Nissan Zero emission recharge station in Tokyo, Japan




 









"The Japanese market for energy storage systems (ESSes) will rapidly grow to 1,195,708kWh in 2017 and 3,306,600kWh in 2020, driven by residential products, according to the results of a survey by the Yano Research Institute Ltd."

Source: Japanese market for energy storage systems predicted to grow rapidly 

By Kenji Kaneko, Nikkei BP CleanTech Institute
Oct. 19, 2015
Japan Today
http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/japanese-market-for-energy-storage-systems-predicted-to-grow-rapidly


October 16, 2015

Japanese Customer News October 17th 2015


















“Asia investment into Australia 24 months (Q3/2013 - Q2/2015)

Origin (US$M)

Singapore 6849

China 6263

Malaysia 1371

Hong Kong 1183

South Korea 306

Japan 241

Taiwan 60

Brunei 10

Source: Knight Frank”


Source: Wave of Asia cash floods market, by Samantha Hutchinson, The Australian, Thursday October 31st, 2015, page 31.



“Japan’s manufacturing and exports sectors, for example, have borne the brunt of emerging markets slow down…BOJ…”The slow down in emerging economies” was weighing on the nations exports and production”

Shares of exports to emerging markets (2014)

US 46.6%

Japan 45%

Eurozone 24.6%

UK 20.2%

Canada 10.4%

Source: Wall Street Journal


Source: China slump hits rich countries by Anjani Trivedi, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian, Friday 16th October, 2015, page 25.



● “Toyota..has focused on hybrids..Toyota’s Mirai fuel-cell car can run 500km with a full tank of hydrogen, based on US testing standards. Rival Nissan’s Leaf electric car has an average range of 135 km with a fully charged battery”

Source: End of the road for petrol, diesel: Toyota, The Wall Street Journal, The Australia, Friday October 16th, 2015, page 25. 



“(Japan Post IPO)..Pricing at the top end of the range would raise roughly 1.4 trillion yen (AUS $16.2 billion) making the floatation the biggest in the world this year”

Source: Retail orders fuel surprising demand for Japan Post IPO’s by Leo Lewis, Financial Times, Australian Financial review, Friday October 16th, 2015, page 25.




“Nikkei’s flagship financial newspaper has more than 3 million print and digital subscribers”

Source: Nikkei’s survival tied to US$1.3b, Financial Times deal by Tony Boyd, Australian Financial review, Friday October 16th, 2015, page 29.



“Japan’s capacity to influence regional events is limited by the struggles of “Abenomics” to restore economic health”
Source: US asserts Asia-Pacific shift by Rowan Callick, The Australian, Monday 12th October, 2015, page 9.



“About 49% per cent of retailers (in the USA) now offer free return shipping according to a study by the National Retail Federation…Many surveys have shown that consumers will often judge a company on its return policy”

Source: Retailers count costs of free return shipping by Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal, The Australian, Tuesday October 13th, 2015, page 25.



“Japan contributed (AUS$42 million) to UNESCO in 2014. UNESCO’s budget for the two year 2014 - 2015 period is (AUS$892 million)”

Source: Japan threat to cut funds to UNESCO, The Australian, Wednesday October 14th, 2015, page 8.



“(Australian) Lion group which is owned by Japanese food and beverages giant Kirin…has a significant presecence (in) the Asian dairy sector with more than 20 per cent of the Hong Kong premium dairy segment and 19 per cent of the premium segment in Malaysia”

Source: Lion in China web, distributor alliance, by Damon Kitney, The Australian, Wednesday 14th October, 2015, page 21.







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September 27, 2015

Video: Touch Screen Shinkansen Sushi Japan





Make sure you visit a Kappa Sushi store when you visit Japan so you can experience this amazing meal. Here here in English

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September 24, 2015

Picture: Japanese shampoo dispenser

Japanese shampoo dispenser copyright 2011
Picture: Japanese shampoo dispenser



Learn more about 

Japanese shampoo dispensers


  here


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September 16, 2015

Picture: Japanese Astronaut Food

Japanese astronaut Food copyright 2007
Picture: Japanese Astronaut Food 





Learn more about 


Japanese Astronauts here

September 11, 2015

What does the Shinkansen , bullet train say about Japan? Efficiency!


Picture: The Shinkansen Bullet Train - 300kmh


"The Shinkansen is an exercise in seamless efficiency...departures and arrivals are punctual to the second, and the networks safety record is beyond reproach"


Source: The Fab Four
By Susan Kurosawa and Michelle Rowe
The Australian Newspaper, 
20th November, 2012 page 18