The magazine of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan
Japanese Media
August 2012
What You Missed in the Japanese Press
Fears Grow over Industrial Spying, Auditing Housewives, Now It's One-coin Car Rentals, What "Buried Treasure" Do You Have at Home?, Hotels Get Creative
Japanese Media
July 2012
What You Missed in the Japanese Press
The "Other" London, Trend towards Bland Flavours, Pre-Consumption Tax Rise Sales Rush?, How to Spend My Summer Bonus, It's the Thought That Counts
Japanese Media
June 2012
What You Missed in the Japanese Press
Stick Your Job!, Foreign Visitors Return, Exchange Rate Blues, Olympics Survey, Vanishing Bookstores
Japanese Media
May 2012
What You Missed in the Japanese Press
Over the past half decade, e-commerce transactions in Japan doubled, reaching a total value of ¥7.8trn in 2010. Following the 11 March, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, disaster-related products enjoyed particularly high demand, with sales via internet service firm Rakuten alone posting a six-fold rise between March and August.
Japanese Media
April 2012
What You Missed In The Japanese Press
To reduce fixed costs, more firms have been relocating away from Tokyo’ s high-rent areas by delegating their back-office functions such as accounting, administration, personnel, procurements, etc., to outside the metropolitan area, or in some cases outside Japan.
Japanese Media
March 2012
What You Missed In The Japanese Press
Catching on, according to the Sankei Shimbun (26 February), is the idea of "collaboration rooms", an arrangement according to which hotels tie up with manufacturers and direct-marking businesses to promote their products.
Japanese Media
February 2012
What You Missed in the Japanese Press
In its predictions for 2012, the magazine Nikkei Trendy (December) notes that Japan’s music fans are expected to mark the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ cutting their first single. “Love Me Do/P.S. I Love You” was recorded in June 1962 and released in the following October.
