By Florian Kohlbacher and Uwe Holtschneider -- Why you have to wait two hours for a doughnut in Japan. -- Queuing is nothing special in Japan. Every day, television programs show long lines of people queuing for up to one hour, even in front of regular noodle shops, only to finish their food within less than ten minutes. Now, the Tokyo branches of the American doughnut chain Krispy Kreme are taking this phenomenon to a new level.

By Andrew Till -- Understanding the Japanese consumer in the digital age -- Japan, and its population of demanding consumers, has always been a famously tough market to crack. Several of the world’s favorite brands, including Colgate Toothpaste and eBay, are simply not present here, and those that are often struggle in a war of attrition against strong, home-grown competitors. -- The world of experimental psychology and neuroscience that has provided marketers with eye tracking technology is now also a source for other advanced tools that are used to gauge the effectiveness of advertising, especially costly TV commercials.

By Sarah Noorbakhsh -- Proctor & Gamble: a Japanese marketing success story -- Global consumer goods giant P&G entered the Japanese market in 1973, acquiring the Nippon Sunhome Company—just three years later, its first product in Japan, the laundry powder ‘Cheer’ had become a best seller. An international marketing leader, in recent years it has had to adapt to changing market conditions and also to think about its own ‘P&G’ brand.

By Makoto Goldstein -- An in-depth look at the Japanese advertising giant -- The advertising industry in Japan is a unique creature and many believe that it is driven, like so many other facets of Japan’s history, by one major ruling body. In the marketing realm, the Shogun is Dentsu. Dynamic they may not be, yet all encompassing and all-purveying they most definitely are.