Japanese Society
Fear for future bankruptcy in Japan -Survey result –
2022年3月2日 Japanese Society
Tokyo Shoko Research(-TRS-), one of Japanese research firms who have been releasing research data regarding the financial performance of small to middle companies in Japan. TRS has just opened research of “Influence of COVID-19”. One of the questions asks “What is your company’s outlook of the payments for the debt funded as the support program?” …
The direction of Japan, is the new leader reliable?
2021年10月29日 Japanese Society
As Kishida mentioned his general policy on October 8th, I would like to share with you my impression on reliability towards Kishida. The impressions that I got were as follows. 1 Clear and easy to understand 2 Point focused speech 3 Good at HR management 4 Loser hero 5 Possibility of ending up a“Fake elite” …
What governs Japanese society
2021年2月3日 Japanese Society
Isaiah Ben-Dasan, Japanese name is Shichihei Yamamoto, once wrote a book called “The Study of Air”, proper English translation may be different. In that book, he mentioned that Japanese have been controlled by AIR. That means a sort of common sense, regardless of its format, which means it is written or verbally transformed, the …
My service is “do nothing”, a JPs influencer
2020年11月3日 Japanese Society
This influencer has been a phenomena in Japanese society. His name is Shoji Morimoto (37). https://twitter.com/morimotoshoji, His twitter name is Nanmoshinai Hito -a person doing nothing- After university, he did his master program and started working at a Japanese company. However, he found himself to be a sort of “hard to adopt” worker to …
For foreigners to lease the real estate from Japanese owners
2020年10月8日 Japanese Society
Sometimes for foreigners to lease up a good properties in Japan, we have to consider the following potential issue . This is not exactly the racial discrimination but due to past bad experience or concerns, some Japanese owners are reluctant to lease the property to foreigners. In that case, there are several approaches to be …
Big picture of Japanese Master Plan and Zoning
2020年10月5日 Japanese Society
In Japan, the master plan, which can be interpreted as the urban development planning, has been structured as following. This would give you a big picture on how we can find a sort of guideline for the real estate development. 1 Planned area: Toshi Keikaku kuiki 都市計画区域 Most of the area in Japan …
Kyoto: the most efficient two parties’ democracy is realized
2020年9月26日 Japanese Society
Recently, when I was discussing with presidents of small to middle size businesses in greater Kyoto, I found out that Kyoto is probably a quite unique city where “two parties’ democracy” has been realized in the local community. According to Kyoto governors’ transition described in Wikipedia, 1950-1978, the communist party was the ruling party in …
Remaining ground lease term is short, what should we do?
2020年9月24日 Japanese Society
In Japan, especially for the prime locations, landlords do not want to sell the property rights. Japanese historically and generally have strong emotional attachments towards the land. Thus, ground lease has been quite common in Japan. If non-Japanese investors find a good property in Japan but the land tenure is a lease hold …
Why the famous JPs drama irritates us? Idiot leader in Japan
2020年9月16日 Japanese Society
Naoki Hanzawa, well know Japanese TV drama, which has become a trend or phenomena in Japan, demonstrated a lot of issues in Japanese society. Mr. Hiroyuki Kobayashi, former top mega bank banker, highlights those issues over this program through his SNS together with his comments. https://www.facebook.com/hiroyuki.kobayashi.31/posts/3101415693241079 (https://www.tbs.co.jp/hanzawa_naoki/) One of the wired topics demonstrated in …
The game soft can be used for political campaign?
2020年9月10日 Japanese Society
Ishiba, one of the candidates for the liberal democratic party head, shared his idea that he was going to use his avatar character in a game “ Animal Crossing New Horizons” as part of his election champaign. However, due to the prohibited purposes stipulated in the game guideline, Ishiba gave up taking that approach. In …
