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Topic: Japan

  
BUSINESS TRAVEL   |  Comment

Tokyo Time Killers

BY Julie Bick
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:55 AM

Got a few hours to kill between meetings on your next business trip? Sneak in a little adventure rather than sit in your hotel room.READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  7 comments

Phone Flip

BY Yuval Rosenberg
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:17 AM

How your cell phone is morphing into the center of your universe.READ»

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BETTER PLACE   |  4 comments

Better Place Installs First Battery-Swap Stations for Electric Taxis in Tokyo

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 3:20 PM

Earlier this year, electric vehicle infrastructure company Better Place tested out its EV battery switch technology in Yokohama, Japan. Apparently the Japanese government was so impressed that it gave Better Place cash to conduct a ...READ»

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JAMAIS CASCIO   |  Comment

Three Possible Economic Models (Part II)

BY Jamais Cascio
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 6:17 PM

Life in three different economic futures: Resilience Economics, Just-in-Time Socialism, and Robonomics. Where do you want to live?READ»

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NYK LINE   |  Comment

Cargo Ship Propelled by Solar Panels Docks in L.A.

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM

Like it or not, we still get most of our goods from overseas. And the cargo ships that transport our products use massive amounts of energy--on average, a 1,000-foot ship carrying 8,000 cargo containers sucks up as much as six ...READ»

CASH VELOCITY   |  Comment

Demand Management Failure

BY Francis McInerney
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jul 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM

New York — Chrysler is a victim of a huge problem that plagues Japanese industry and which our new CORPORATE INNOVATION PROJECT is designed to obviate: a fatal lack of demand management. The lack of demand management in Japan ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

JVC "Aleno" Media Players To Hit US Shores In July

BY Fast Company staff
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 1:10 PM

JVC Victor has been cranking out its popular Aleno players in Japan for some time, and it's just announced it will be adding three more models to the XA-V lineup. The new models, labeled XA-V80, XA-V40, and XA-V20 will have 8GB, ...READ»

ALENO   |  Comment

JVC "Aleno" Media Players To Hit US Shores In July

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 10:02 PM

JVC Victor [TYO: 6792] has been cranking out its popular Aleno players in Japan for some time, and it's just announced it will be adding three more models to the XA-V lineup. The new models, labeled XA-V80, XA-V40, and XA-V20 will ...READ»

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GOOGLE JAPAN   |  1 comment

Google Plays Catch-Up in Japan With New TV Spots and Free WiFi

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 1, 2009 at 9:24 AM

Google's offering free Wi-fi access in cafes--but not in the U.S. The company is busy wooing customer affections in another country: Japan, where it's losing the search engine battle. We're used to Google dominating pretty much ...READ»

BBC   |  1 comment

Japan's Quirky Vending Machines

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue May 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM

Put some change in, thrust your face out and prepare for… a quick nicotine fix and an estimate of your wrinkles. The Japanese have always had the world's quirkiest vending machines – actually I'd go so far as to say the ...READ»

CONSUMER PRODUCTS   |  Comment

New Handheld Device From Nintendo?

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Aug 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM

Despite the popularity of the Nintendo [TYO:7974] DS in the United States, Japanese buyers are apparently bored with the device and sales are sinking (especially in comparison to Sony's [NYSE:SNE] PSP). According to Wedbush Morgan ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Kyoto Musings

BY James Todhunter
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 9:44 AM

I am taking the bullet train this morning from Tokyo to Kyoto to go speak at the 2008 Japanese TRIZ Symposium.  While in Japan, I have also had the chance to meet with several members of the Japanese innovation community.  It is ...READ»

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ALTERNATIVE POWER   |  Comment

Ticket Machines Powered By Stomping Commuters Feet

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 10, 2008 at 10:12 AM

Thousands of stamping feet will be doing the environment a little good from today, as a Japanese experiment that harnesses footfalls for generating power gets underway.The system consists of rubber mats and (presumably) piezo-electric ...READ»

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INTERIOR LIFESTYLE   |  2 comments

Big in Japan: Report From Asia's Most Influential Design Fair

BY Julie Taraska
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jun 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM

The latest products and trends from Asia's most influential interiors fair mark a return to basics--delivered with a pop twist.READ»

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DESIGN   |  Comment

Move Over Iron Man: A Robotic Exoskeleton

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM

Here's a detail that Iron Man got all wrong: In the movie, the suit's inventor is an American businessman. Please. Tony Stark would never get the jump on the Japanese. Witness this working robotic suit:   The design ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Move Over Iron Man: A Robotic Exoskeleton

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM

Here's a detail that Iron Man got all wrong: The suit's inventor is an American businessman. Please. Tony Stark would never get the jump on the Japanese. Witness this working robotic suit:   The ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Coin-op Nation

BY Lucas Conley
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:02 AM

Toilet paper from a vending machine? Here's one hot trend that won't catch on in the United States.READ»

BROWSER   |  Comment

Xtravo Explorer to be shipped as Xtravo Japan in Japan and Xtravo China in China

BY Sheikh Imran Ahmed
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM

Jawoco. Com confirms today, that Xtravo Explorer 3 will be shipped in Japan and China with the anem of Xtravo Japan and Xtravo China. Verisons will be modified for Japan & China.   Xtravo Explorer 3 will be ...READ»

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MICHAEL CANNELL   |  Comment

Hold Onto the Handrails: Home Design Goes Teeter Totter

BY Michael Cannell
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 10:09 AM

A new genre of residential architecture lifts and tilts houses from their foundations.READ»

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DESIGN   |  Comment

Help Pick the Next Big Japanese Brand

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jan 29, 2009 at 1:59 PM

There’s Toyota and Nissan and Sony and Nintendo. Next, there may be Inaba, Monacca, Satsuma, and Kawaguchi  i-mono.Those companies are among the few dozen that recently auditioned for prime time in the West at an exhibit in New ...READ»

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EDELMAN BLOG   |  1 comment

Asian Innovation in Marketing -- Integrated Online Branded Communities

BY Alan Vandermolen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jul 8, 2009 at 2:10 PM

There is a perception that Asia lags North America in terms of social media uptake and marketing innovation. Not true. Take for example global mobile marketing leadership in Korea and Japan, or the strong role played by online in ...READ»

ADVERTISING   |  Comment

Internet Marketing and SEO Israel Blog

BY Zvi Peretz Cohen
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon May 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM

Internet Marketing and SEO Israel Blog on Optimization Strategy discusses SEO China, SEO Japan, SEO Russia and international SEO as well as strategies for hi-tech, medical device, exporting companies, hotels and others. ...READ»

MARKETING   |  Comment

The Business of Being Single

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jun 1, 2007 at 3:37 PM

"I think everybody's just trying not to be lonely" -- Billie (Drew Barrymore) -- Lucky You It's no news really that people are obsessed with the idea of falling in love. It's an idea that pervades popular culture like no other -- ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Think Global, Campaign Local

BY Ronald Brownstein
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM

Last summer's convulsions over money and political reform in Japan tore apart the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and brought down the government.READ»

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CHEAP CHIP   |  Comment

Japan's Swankiest Capsule Hotel

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM

Who says packing-in like a sardine can't be swank?READ»

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