Sue Kinoshita, Director UKTI Japan, reflects on the Japanese passion for group activity in business, and in daily life Morecambe and Wise, the Two Ronnies, Little and Large... the comedians of my childhood all seemed to come in pairs. I suddenly …
Charlotte Griffiths from UKTI Japan’s marketing team takes a step into Japan’s future and considers how the UK can help to build it. Remember when Japan was the future? Think Blade Runner where Los Angeles looked more like downtown Osaka, …
Charlotte Griffiths from UKTI Japan’s marketing team examines one of Japan’s most successful marketing exports. This year a British female turns 40. I imagine a fair number of other British females will do the same, but this one has particular …
My first experience of a GREAT week was as part of a trade mission to Japan in October of this year. I was slightly apprehensive whether I was committing to something that would help my business, Amelia Rope Chocolate, grow in export …
Sue Kinoshita: Director of UK Trade & Investment Japan, shares her experience of this year's GREAT Week in Japan events which involved nearly 50 UK companies and over 500 Japanese buyers. It wasn't quite the Queen in her carriage being …
Sue Kinoshita, Director of UK Trade & Investment Japan, muses over Japanese marital mores, and how they can help identify market opportunities and business etiquette lessons. Don't you just love surveys? Fascinating to find out whether what you think is …
Let me start by wishing you a happy anniversary. Of what? well, I don't know, but everyone seems to be commemorating something this year - UK-Japan trading relations 400 years, London Underground 150 years, Dr Who 50 years - so I'm sure you'll …
Even after 14 years on and off living in Japan there are still occasions when I do double takes. A shrine to ginger? A “casual massage”? Both seen yesterday while out and about in Tokyo. Smoking is another puzzle. There’s …
It takes a lot to get me out of bed at 5am. An early flight to an exotic holiday location might do it. But otherwise forget it. Unless, that is, it’s the Olympics. Last summer I adapted my body clock …
Taken your summer holiday yet? If so, just pause to think of the millions of Japanese workers who won't have done, despite the temperatures reaching a record 40 degrees and the humidity being roughly equivalent to a Turkish bath. The …
