Terrie's Job Tips -- Team Training: Part Three - Big Picture Issues

Submitted by Japan Inc on September 5, 2007

Training really can transform a company, whether you're in the services business or in manufacturing. It helps people see a common goal and to work towards it. It also helps them understand each other a bit better and try to overlook the issues of different value systems and cultures. Further it sets expectations team-wide that help restrain those with "expansive personalities" from trampling over the more reserved.

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TT-435 -- Why interest rates will stay low, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on September 3, 2007

As the Bank of Japan announces that it won't be raising interest rates, Terrie considers the past and future of rates in Japan focusing on the variables of US concerns, govenment debt and currency trading. Read Now

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JIN-429 -- What do you know about hostessing? Part one

Submitted by Japan Inc on August 29, 2007

This week’s JIN comes from a young woman who worked in the hostess trade in Japan. It chronicles some of her experiences and wider observations about the industry. To be continued... Read Now

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Terrie's Job Tips -- Team Training: Part Two - LINC Computer Story

Submitted by Japan Inc on August 29, 2007

Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's I had a rapidly growing IT and outsourcing business called LINC Computer. We were pretty much the first foreign-run IT company in Japan specifically servicing other foreign firms, and since we started business in 1987, our timing turned out to be well synched to the growth of the financial services bubble in the late 1980's.

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TT-434 -- Aojiru in your tank, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on August 27, 2007

Find out about the health food drink named Aojiru, "a reconstituted juice made from the powders of dried vegetable leaves such as Kale, Barley,Wheat, and Komatsuna sprouts." Includes industry analysis and even a suggestion for how to improve the taste of this bright green, healthy brain & body fuel. Plus news summaries and feedack for Terrie's Take on the lay judge system. Read Now

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GW-271 -- The Hottest Gizmos and Gadgets from Japan

Submitted by Japan Inc on August 24, 2007

Name: SD-HDC032GT4, SD-HC016GT4, SD-MH008GA
Category: Flash memory card
Price: Open Price
Release date in Japan: January 2008
For this and other new gadgets Read More

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JIN-428 -- India-Japan Relations

Submitted by Japan Inc on August 22, 2007

If Mr. Abe has gone to India to escape the heat, he is probably in for a disappointment, although he is at least out of the political heat back home for a while. But what is Mr. Abe doing there and what does this visit mean for the alleged convergence in India-Japan relations? Read Now

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Terrie's Job Tips -- Team Training: Part One - You Come First

Submitted by Japan Inc on August 22, 2007

Some years ago in my first IT business, LINC Computer, we had a situation where the company was growing quickly, but the pressure of the growth was starting to have a negative effect on the team. People were becoming stressed out, tired, irritable, unpredictable, selfish, uncommunicative, bullying or submissive, and increasingly unresponsive to their clients. While it wasn't a total melt down, the resignations of several key people made me realize as the CEO something needed to be done.

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FW-105 -- The Summer Blues: Cutting Aircon Costs

Submitted by Japan Inc on August 17, 2007

Frugal Watch offers some tips on how to survive the heat without spending your month's salary on air conditioning. Read Now

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JIN-427 -- Trouble in the post

Submitted by Japan Inc on August 15, 2007

This weeks JIN looks at how the changing political landscape in Japan might impact on the plans to privatize Japan Post, in light of a recent announcement by the DPJ that they will be proposing a bill to freeze the process. Read Now

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