Grey on Feb 09 2008 | Filed under: Japan: Business & Work
If you haven’t already heard, news broke a week or two that a small firm based in Kawasaki, Teramento (テラメント) Corporation falsely reported to have acquired a 51% stake in six large (giant) Japanese companies: Sony Corporation; Toyota Motor Corporation; Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT); Fuji Television Network Inc.; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.; and, [...]
Red on Nov 22 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Business & Work
Who is Japan’s little known rice growin’
financial hotshot?The UK has it’s first bank run in 150 years. Citibank fired it’s CEO. The whole financial world is reeling from the financial mess called subprime (see here for our easy to understand footnote on subprime).
Even GM (last I checked they made cars and not houses!) [...]
Red on Nov 11 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Business & Work
On October 5, 2007, two drug stores announced their intent to merge. CFS and Ain Pharmaciez. Never heard of either? Interestingly they are both within the top 10 drug store chains in Japan and if the merger is successful their combined sales will be about 250 billion JPY and rocket them into #2 in the industry
Bone on Jul 20 2007 | Filed under: Japan: Business & Work
The famous Tonkatsu Sauce maker “Bulldog”, facing a potential takeover by the foreign investment firm Steel Partners, was saved last week in a disturbing effort by the Japanese courts to prevent foreign money and ownership permeating into an important aspect of the Japanese cultural dinner table.
Red on Nov 01 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Business & Work
Ever since reading a recent article on stippy.com about the under-representation of female CEOs in Japan, I’ve been racking my brains to find one. My first thoughts were of Tomoyo Nonaka of Sanyo Electric or Fumiko Hayashi of Daiei, but as Chairwomen, they both strike me more as figure heads than actual active, managing [...]
Blue on Sep 20 2006 | Filed under: Japan: Business & Work
There remains this enormous and wicked sociocultural myth. It is this: Hard work is all there is.
Work hard and the world respects you. Work hard and you can have anything you want. Work really extra super hard and do nothing else but work and ignore your family and spend 14 hours a day at the [...]