Mixi is Japan with 22 million users continues arguably the largest social network in Japan. The American rival Facebook with a lot of effort trying to make up for the lead, has explained CEO Mark Zuckerberg since Japan became an important growth market. According to market research company Nielsen, the American Social Network has over relatively modest 1. (more…)
Nov
16
Facebook in the neck
Nov
14
The chicken war on Christmas
Japanese family spends their Christmas dinners like fried chicken dinner at the American fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Sanders, the founder and figurehead of the mark, each changed clothes for Christmas and no reservation is between 23 and 25 December nothing. Meanwhile, most Japanese believe that a chicken and not a turkey or ham is the standard meal on Christmas Eve in the West. (more…)
Nov
13
High-price island China
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. (more…)
Nov
12
Come on the pipe
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. (more…)
Nov
11
Under time pressure, eat and train
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. (more…)
Nov
09
The naturalized Shiitake
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. (more…)
Nov
06
A Nazi costume for Christmas
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. (more…)
Nov
05
Why an MBA?
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. (more…)
Oct
31
A peace, Chinese style
Simmering since September, then in an open exchange of blows out conflict between the company Qihoo and Tencent is finally over. It began when Qihoo, which belongs to the product 360 to the market leader in security software, Tencent accused that this popular with the QQ instant messaging program would spy on their users. (more…)
Oct
30
China's War of the software giant
In China is usually not the penguin for the Linux operating system, but for the most popular and most widely used instant-messaging program QQ Tencent Company. QQ is not just a simple chat program and some games. Is similar to Facebook dominates the western hemisphere, but in the People's Republic of blocked regularly, QQ also helps to justify their existence on the Internet. (more…)