#14 New Eye Opening Way of Using Shinkansen
Among depressing news, Japan’s bullet train, Shinkansen was reported to find a new eye opening way of its use. This time they don’t transport people but produce! Japan is known for delicious fruits...
20 Jan 20217min
#13 Watanabe Naomi: Influencers! Act with passion and go forward with your opinion.
COVID19 sure has forced us to change how we live our lives in many ways. There is one Japanese comedian who decided to live between NY and Tokyo in the midst of a pandemic even though she is successfu...
19 Jan 20216min
#12 A Japanese Actor who believed in Vietnam and its Voice
There are a few Western cultures that have not really taken a root in Japan. One of them is volunteering. In Japanese mind, people are programmed to act based on the principle that our actions are for...
17 Jan 20219min
#11 New Wagashi: Cutting off the stereotype image lead to the hospitality and Japan’s virtue
Oftentimes, we Japanese females are willing to work in the background even with expecting no credit. That may be a beautiful virtue but in the real world, those behaviors are taken as too naive. Today...
14 Jan 20218min
#10 Cleaning house full of garbage to gain the purpose of life
Believe or not, not all Japanese people are neat and tidying up all the time. There are social phenomena going on in Japan called ゴミ屋敷, meaning house full of garbages. These tends are reported to be a...
9 Jan 202110min
#9 This is how the world's best sake was born: 40 tastings a day and breaking the tradition
For anyone who grew up watching his or her father drinking sake every night at the dinner table, sake is something for old men and not necessarily fashionable. Because recent culinary trend in Europe ...
5 Jan 20219min
#8 HondaJet’s Key to Success: "Step by Step with a Long-Term Perspective and Vision"
When I heard the news about HondaJet for first time in 2015, I was not sure what to think. Honda is one of two top Japanese car manufacturers in US but it has been losing its sparks in the market. My ...
3 Jan 202114min
#7 Is PM Suga’s “Carbon Neutrality” by 2050 ambitious or just unrealistic?
Last month, Prime Minister Suga announced the Japan’s target to go carbon neutral by 2050. Two months prior, in September Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would reduce its CO2 emissio...
30 Des 20207min
