This week's Gadget Watch takes a look at Kaga Electronics Portable 1-Seg TV, Panasonic's English friendly keyboard and Evergreen's IC recorder with a huge 69 hours of recordable time.

Today we answer a reader letter about whether he is cut out for recruiting.

Reader: I recently turned thirty and have lived in Japan for four and a half years. I snapped out of a dangerously comfortable situation at an "Eikaiwa" (English Teaching) job and uprooted everything to come to Tokyo a couple of months ago. I currently teach a mixture of corporate in-house classes and high-school work. I love teaching and have done it for seven years now in Korea, New Zealand and Japan. However, I know I need to diversify and I really want to try something new. I'm wondering if recruiting might be a viable alternative?

Is taking your company to an IPO worth it? Demands for discounts have made the prospect of listing less attractive and the benefits are questionable. Terrie takes a look at some recent cases to identify the contours of the current IPO market in Japan. Read Terrie's Take Now

Whenever the US economy hits speed bumps, through bitter experience business people in Japan start battening down the hatches. Such is the business environment now, that is not just hatch battening, but many are also starting to think about retrenchment, both as firers and fired. Today we look at severance packages, and what you should expect.