TT-708 -- Safety and Money - It's All Relative. E-biz news in Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 29, 2013

This week we thought we'd cover a number of issues relating to safety and how the bigger the problems, the bigger the fudging that goes on to reconcile the solutions with their attendant costs.

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TT-707 -- Online Games Challenges for GREE, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 22, 2013

GREE spent US$104m in April 2011 to buy out a US games platform operator called OpenFeint. The OpenFeint platform wasn't particularly well built.

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TT-706 -- Cool Japan May Not Be So Cool After All. E-biz news from Japan.

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 15, 2013

The job of the "Cool Japan" fund will be to promote Japanese content, high-status food, and cultural products abroad, and to presumably encourage people to travel to Japan and try them here as well.

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TT-705 -- Dangers of Japan's Quantitative Easing Plans, e-biz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 8, 2013

Under the influence of PM Shinzo Abe, the Bank of Japan declared its new strategy for fighting deflation. The bank said it would embark on its own version of America's Quantitative Easing (QE) program.

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TT-704 -- Why Do Deals Get Done in March? E-biz news from Japan.

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on April 1, 2013

Corporate planning teams in each company spend most of the year window shopping, and only look to pull the trigger after they've seen everything that is available for that given fiscal year.

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TT-703 -- JOBS Act-like Crowdfunding for Japan? Ebiz news from Japan.

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on March 25, 2013

The Financial Services Agency may allow crowdfunding websites in Japan to expand from their limited "donations" style of getting cash to start-ups, similar to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) in the USA.

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TT-702 -- New JTA Campaign -- What Makes Japan Unique is Japanese Themselves, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on March 18, 2013

A new JTA video project ran for five months and culminated in the launch of the JTA's new media offering -- a massive collection of 160 videos -- that has been turned loose on the Internet.

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TT-701 -- Many More Bankruptcies Next Month? E-biz news from Japan.

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on March 11, 2013

While the world looks at Japan and thinks that a recovery is underway, the reality is that up 25% of Japan's functioning (versus dormant) companies are instead tottering on the edge of insolvency.

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TT-700 -- Why Kameda May Regret its US Cracker Deal, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on March 4, 2013

Kameda told the Nikkei it was buying MGC because of a familiar reason -- the market in Japan is mature and flat and the firm is looking for growth strategies abroad.

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TT-699 -- 2012 Ad Spending Shows Interesting Trends, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on February 25, 2013

Dentsu, the world's largest single-brand advertising agency, has just released the preliminary version of its 2012 report on advertising in Japan.

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