To New Year or Chinese New Year in February, takes the desire to travel around the Chinese people. Paris, London and other major cities to popular destinations for short but intense shopping trips. Professor Han Qi of the University of Economics and Commerce in Beijing shows a rather unknown reason on this.

Since early October has pitched in Japan, the tobacco tax by 40 percent. Many consumers are forcing this extra cost to quit smoking completely or rethink. Thus, the sale of loose tobacco that is produced in Japan for the traditional Kiseru-pipe, has increased in recent months, as the Mainichi Shimbun reported.

In Japan is spreading a new form of payment. In the small gym in Tokyo Convenience Fitness Nippori Arakawa district there are no membership or entrance fees. The customer pays only the minutes spent on a fitness machine. A machine for stretching exercises per 10 minute unit costs 500 yen per 15 minutes billed.

The shiitake mushroom Enstammt originally from the forests of Japan and China. In East Asia, he is the most widely cultivated edible mushroom in Europe after the second mushroom, the number The available in Japanese stores shiitake mushrooms come from farms. The origin is Japan, according to most of all packaging.

The Japanese discount chain Don Quijote makes shopping for once not to talk to its low prices, but with a controversial sale of the product. For Halloween and Christmas, the department store, a Nazi costume, wrapped in a plastic bag with a Hitler figure and the statement has “Heil Hitler”, offered for the best.

A Master of Business Administration is to acquire, in the West for many ambitious professionals rigueur. Not so in Japan. “In Japan, the belief prevails that business knowledge is at work and not acquired in the classroom,” says TW Kang, a manager who lives in Tokyo MBA graduate told the New York Times.