Japanese Business Trend

Web speed in Japan

One thing I was surprised at coming to Europe is the internet speed is slower than in Japan. I thoughts most of European countries have a high-bandwidth network which should be higher than in Asia. I lived in France. The web speed was so slow that I stopped to download a movie my friend in Japan sent to me. My understanding to developed countries was not correct. The following article says, South Korea has very high-web speed services. Akamai: South Korea still leads world in web speeds, China finally speeding up(Tech Asia) Since I love Korea, I was used to go 2-3 times in a year. I’ve never had any

Japanese Business Trend

Japan: 26th in global English proficiency

06/02/201407/02/2014 semjapanese_meg Difficult, English, Japanese, yahoo japan

JAPAN TODAY “Japan ranks 26th of 60 countries in global English proficiency” The article says, “Japan’s EPI score in the survey was 53.21, down 0.96 points from the first edition, which used test data from 2007-2009. Among Asian countries, Malaysia and Singapore scored highest, coming 11th and 12th respectively, with Hong Kong 22nd, South Korea 24th and China 34th.” We cannot compare to other Asian countries basically. One of the reasons we’re not good at English is we don’t need to use and have chance to speak English in our daily life even in business. As you many know, Japan has a huge domestic demand which triggers us not to

Japanese Business Trend

Japanese is difficult to learn?

05/02/201407/02/2014 semjapanese_meg

YES!!! I don’t think Japanese is easy language to learn. We have 3 types of characters etc…. This is very nice article to summarize why it is difficult to learn Japanese? When anyone ask me the question, I always say ‘It’s really difficult. Unless you live in Japan or you LOVE Anime/manga, it would be impossible to learn Japanese’. Amazingly I met some non-Japanese who can speak and write Japanese so fluently. In most of the cases, they love Japanese culture itself. Hence they have had a big passion to understand what we talk. Japanese is totally different from other languages. When Japanese would like to learn other language, it’s

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Japanese LOVE Apple

05/02/201407/02/2014 semjapanese_meg apple, au, Docomo, iphone, Japan, Japanese mobile market share, Softbank

As some of you many know, we have 3 major mobile companies in Japan. 1) Docomo 2) Softbank 3) au According to the recent data at Mobilemarketshare, 45.5% Docomo, 29% AU and 25.5% Softbank in Dec 2013. Although Docomo is dominant in Japanese mobile market, you can find many Japanese use iPhone. To have iPhone in Japan, we had to shift from your current mobile network to Softbank. Softbank was the only mobile company sold iPhone. Then the situation changed a few years ago, now you can have iPhone via all 3 companies. An article mentions about a mobile market in Japan. Android ends the year on top but Apple

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No TV life in Japan?

13/01/201407/02/2014 semjapanese_meg CM, Japan, TV, TVC

Twitter, LINE, Facebook etc…. There are so many Social Networks in our life. On the other hand, 1 day is 24 hours which does not change. Then we decide how we use our time. I heard that many Japanese have stopped watching TV. When I was in Japan, I turned on TV as soon as I came back to my home. At the same time, I turned on PC as well. While I ate dinner, I saw TV and searched on the internet. I assume that’s one typical life style for a single life. I was crazy about TV although it was not useful or fun. Here is very interesting

Japanese Business Trend

MUGENUP

10/01/201410/01/2014 semjapanese_meg

A lot of business have been generating in Japan. Unfortunately most of them have only Japanese site which is not accessible to non-Japanese speakers. I would like to pick up some interesting business based on my preference :). MUGENUP (direct translation: No limit UP) MUGENUP is a service which illustrators can do their jobs just creating their illustrations and send them on the internet. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Recommend MUGENUP to those people _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ – Want to be an illustrator – Try to do more professional illustration job not only for a hobby – Do some work to use my free time _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Recommend MUGENUP to companies _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ – Need a high-quality illustration