Events

The Tokyo real estate market is ever changing and as one of the highest fixed costs it has a profound effect on every company.   With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic […]

Many companies send middle or blossoming upper management from the head office to take on the Representative director role in the Japan entity. The challenge is that many of those […]

Understanding politics even in one's own language is sometimes a chore, sometimes a bore. For those of us who live in Japan, though, this challenge is exponentially greater and not […]

The Internet is now the forth social infrastructure and continue to be evolved just from connectivity to digitizing the world. IoT is creating new economy connecting unconnected with people, processes […]

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With the global market trending towards sharing, it is fascinating to watch that trend and how it effects our businesses. We’ve got ride-sharing (Uber, Lyft), room-sharing (AirBNB), and a lot […]

In business, when we think of “acquisition" immediately the image of a large firm buying a smaller firm to get into a national market, buy market share, or even kill […]

Earlier this year, once again, Japan’s LDP decided not to seek passage of a bill to legalize casino operations in Japan. The bill would lift the ban on casino operations […]

Everyone knows the joke about the two things we must do in life, pay taxes and die someday. The good thing about paying a lot of tax is that can […]

Life is not just about knowing people, it's about knowing good people. There's no beating the quality of CEO Insights members and our guests around a table. As an executive, […]