Book Review: Tokyo Island by Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino’s short story is based on a small unnamed island in the Pacific ocean. Kiyoko a forty-six year old woman is preparing for her wedding to her fourth husband today. An island ritual takes place every two years and the men on the island enter a lottery that is made up of seashells. As the only woman on the island she prepares for the day and imagines her new future.

’But Kiyoko was the star, no matter where she went. People on the island studied her every move, doing their best to stay in her good graces and win her attention’’

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

Video: Guinness World Records

Source: Gran's game for YouTube

Herald Sun Newspaper

Monday 8th June 2020

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Japanese Customer: Why Japanese Customers are becoming more important to global marketers

Japanese customers are becoming more important:



Recent overview:

• " the Japanese ..voted.. as the world's best tourists in a global survey"

Source: Expedia.com, June 2008


51% of Japanese customers used Yahoo to search on the Internet in January 2009 Source: Comscore.com, March 10, 2009
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2745

Single mom households over 1 million
Source: JapanTimes.com, March 19, 2009


Net household assets December 2008 ¥1.434 quadrillion
Source: JapanTimes.com, March 25th,2009

Second-largest holder of debt at the end of January 2009,with $US634.8 million
Source: www..theage.com.au, March 17th, 2009

Japan voted the most innovative nation based on number of patents registered < Source: The Economist, 2007 Exported food to the value of ¥431 billion in 2008

Source: JapanTimes, March 14, 2009< Population 127 million people (July 2007 est.) Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook CIA FACT BOOK

2007 Gross Domestic Product (Purchasing Power Parity) $4.218 trillion (2006 est.) GDP per capita (ppp)$33,100 (2006 est.) Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html Internet Users 87.54 million (2006) The number of Japanese people who traveled abroad in 2006 increased to 17.53 million persons (up 0.8 percent over the previous year) Source: Japan National Tourist Organization 49.5% of Baby boomers the largest and wealthiest demographic want to travel overseas after retiring Source: http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/31/what-japanese-baby-boomers-think-part-2-of-2/ Source: What Japan Thinks Japan must import about 60% of its food on a caloric basis. Source: