August 2000 Issue

On the cover: Money.
You know, the stuff that makes the world go round and second round and third round.

August 2000
No. 10

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August 2000 Issue

Features
	The Diverse Face of Japanese IT Foreigners in Japan have long done the "three Ds": the dirty, the difficult, and the dangerous. Now add another D: the digital.

	VC Roundtable Discussion What do these guys want, anyway? We asked, they came, we gave 'em some coffee, and they told us.

	VC Money Make no mistake: there's loads of it in Japan, and more loads of it are on the way. It's all in search of tech ventures in the world's biggest economy and biggest online nation outside the States.

Filter
	Cash, Credit, or Keitai? Will Japan's keitai users start to think of their cell phones as wallets? Companies like Citigroup, Sony, and NTT are already banking on it.

	Business Advice From People Living Here The Japan Market Entry Competition gives companies invaluable business advice from foreigners who live in Japan.

	JPNIC Rethinks Weird Domain Name Rules Being incorporated overseas is generally sufficient for doing business in Japan. But if you want a .co.jp domain name, you'll have to register your business in Japan. Oh, and you can never sell or buy a domain name. And you can only have one.

	News Bites On NTT DoCoMo's international moves, Pro Tect's system for controlling vending machines via cell phones, MIDI and the keitai, and a new fax-to-email service called F Mail.

	Handspring Takes on the Net Phone How will PDAs like the Handspring mesh with Japan's keitai culture?

People
	Stella Kaoruko She uses her spiritual powers to advise some of Japan's most powerful businessmen and politicians. She uses her business savvy to make a mint over the Net.

	Yoshihiro Tashiro His first Web attempt was essentially a finance textbook online. Problem: users never came back. Now he's got a better idea with J*investor.

	Takashi Hara The president of Vagabond knows full well the power of email newsletters in Japan. His Internet content company specializes in meru maga.

Columns
	The J-Files About 400 years ago the English foolishly ignored local advice and focused their efforts on breaking into China instead of the Japan market. What's the right move now?

	Joi's Diary Eventually people will realize they don't want to spew their data into cyberspace for any large entity to compile profiles from.

Research
	Japan Studies What do Japanese perceptions of the military balance of power in Asia have to do with the New Economy? Read on.

	Statistics (PDF-formatted file, Acrobat 4.0 or later required) On ecommerce revenues, Internet usage, number of online shops, Net users by age, cell phone subscribers, and a convenient way to keep it all in perspective.

Investor
	Winning the Japanese Domain Name Game Darshaun Inc. isn't exactly the next Yahoo, but it's carved out a curious little niche in Japanese domain names.

	Mini-Stocks for the Mini-Investor in Japan Mini-stocks, ADRs, and covered warrants: they're all ways to get around the absurdly high stock prices on Japan's markets.

	Japan's Stock Market Oddities Explained Why is Japan's stock market so, well, freaking weird? Mike Yoshii and Kouji Ishikawa of White & Case explain.

In Parting
	A terrific restaurant Miyashita

	Round Up Places to go and things to do.

	Art Department Enjoy some intense visual overload at Digital Image Gallery 2000.

	Blowfish The ideal boss? Seiichi Hoshino, the Chunichi Dragons baseball manager, who regularly slaps players around in the dugout.