Australian businesses must get serious about North Asia opportunities according to Catherine Livingstone, Business Council of AUstralia

Picture: Japanese Green tea with Manju

(Australian) "Business needs to devise implementation strategies to maximize the opportunities that will arise from getting preferential access to North Asian markets and managing costs and increasing productivity in order to be genuinely attractive to our regional customers" 

Catherine Livingstone, President Australian Business Council of Australia

Source: Asia in no doubt Australia means business

By Catherine Livingstone

The Australian Newspaper

Monday 28th APril 2014, page 12

Read full article here

http://www.bca.com.au/newsroom/north-asia-trade-opportunities-article-by-catherine-livingstone-in-the-australian

Whats new this summer in Japan? Japanese television commercials (Japanese)

Title: Summer Television commericals 

- Japan (Japanese)

Source: 

Japanese TV Commercials [ 2014 weeks 29 & 30 ]

JPCMHD You Tube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpu_bvUToMg&index=1&list=PLBCA0F10FE6785BE6

"Japanese.. wabi-sabi values character and uniqueness over a shiny facade" Rework Jason Fried

"the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi..values character & uniqueness over a shiny facade. it teaches that cracks and scratches in things should be embraced.It's also about simplicity. You strip things down and then use what you have"

Source: Rework - Change the way you work forever

By Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Page 182

Vermilion books, 2010

"Japanese automakers...focus on core principles that don't change: reliability, affordability and practicality" Rework - Jason Fried

"Japanese automakers...focus on core principles that don't change: reliability, affirdability and practicality. People wanted those things thirty years ago, they want them today, and they'll want them thirty years from now"

Source: Rework - Change the way you work forever

By Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Page 85

Vermilion books, 2010