The magazine of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan
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January 2014
YIS: A Truly International Learning Community
The close sense of community that exists at YIS is something that is frequently highlighted.
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January 2014
The British School in Tokyo Celebrates 25 years
Sport, music and drama are woven into the fabric of BST, and both community service and adventurous activity are real strengths.
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November 2013
A Consulting Approach to 3PL
OOCL Logistics discusses why its flexibility and highly trained staff are significant drivers of development.
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October 2013
The Sky’s the Limit
Halil Gunay, general manager of Turkish Airlines in Tokyo, believes airports in Japan need to consider operating on a 24-hour basis in order for the country to be competitive on a global scale.
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August 2013
Gate Hotel: Where Old and New Mean Style
Anniversaries are usually a time of reminiscing and looking back. But Keisuke Uno, general manager of the Gate Hotel Kaminarimon, wants the first anniversary of his hotel to be a time to look forward.
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July 2013
Future Workplace: a New Model for the User Desktop
Traditional PCs—with the exception, possibly, of those used in computing-intensive areas such as R&D and development—are more than less a phased-out model.
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June 2013
Mars: More than a Cuppa
The modern office, scientists are discovering, can be a stifling and inhibiting space. Partitions cut us off from our colleagues, we are glued to our computer screens for hours on end, and our creative and innovative juices ebb away.
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June 2013
High Performance; Motorsport Genes
Two new BMW M GmbH models—the M6 Gran Coupe and the M3 Coupe DTM Champion Edition—were unveiled at the New BMW M Model Japan Premiere on 28 April.
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April 2013
Japan—Lack of Trust Now Embedded
Last December, a tunnel on one of Japan’s key arterial highways collapsed. Among the grief and sadness that followed this accident, one lady’s comment stood out: “You can’t even trust the tunnels in this country anymore”.
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March 2013
A British Education
Offering a first-class education to more than 700 young people from the age of three to 18, the British School in Tokyo (BST) is approaching its 25th anniversary at an exciting time in its development.
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February 2013
Manchester United Soccer Schools Coming to Japan
Building on the success of our programmes in the UK, China, India and the United Arab Emirates, Manchester United Soccer Schools will work with the UK-based Hiroshima firm, GEC World, to deliver football camps in Japan this spring.
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February 2013
JFTC 2012 Essay Competition
ccepting his prize at a reception held at the Hotel New Otani on 8 January, Michael Sullivan fought off competition from a record 216 entrants to take the top award in the 2012 Essay Competition on the theme of “Strategies for a Depopulating Japan” conducted by the Japan Foreign Trade Council Inc. (JFTC).
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January 2013
Bridging the Global Achievement Gap
The British School in Tokyo (BST) has enjoyed an enviable reputation for the provision of high-quality education since first opening its doors in Shibuya almost a quarter of a century ago. However, the past year has seen its star rise even higher.
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January 2013
McGill University
McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management is at the forefront of management research and education. It aims to foster continued innovation, leverage excellence and develop students into business leaders who have a global outlook and understand the importance of personal responsibility.
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November 2012
Supply Chain Managed Service Enables “Predictive Visibility”
Avnet Inc.’s role in high-tech supply chains enables it to co-ordinate information from start to end.
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November 2012
Goodman Japan
The logistics sector in Japan has shown solid growth in the past year.
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September 2012
Diversity Survey Results 2012
For its recent diversity survey, Hays Specialist Recruitment Japan KK polled 1,000 hiring and line managers, as well as female candidates, all of whom, in November and December 2011, had been placed in a new role, or who had been looking for a new position.
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August 2012
Viewing the Cloud Homogeneously
Cloud infrastructures must meet the highest requirements relating to data protection and availability. But how can the quality requirements be met and data security be guaranteed? Service providers show significant differences here. What should companies take note of when selecting the provider?
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July 2012
The IP Telephone Revolution
When I first visited Japan more than 20 years ago, it was cheaper to call Osaka from New York than to do so from Tokyo. Thus there were a number of callback services that took advantage of this fact to provide lower cost, domestic long-distance telephone services in Japan.
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July 2012
New Partnership To Revolutionize Talent Management in Japan
Canning Professional KK recently announced it had launched a new brand, McLeish Wang, and had reached an agreement with UK-based Saville Consulting to bring the groundbreaking psychometric tool Saville Consulting Wave and the rest of the Saville suite of aptitude tests and psychometrics to Japan as the firm’s official partner.
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July 2012
JFTC Essay Competition 2012
Since 2005, the Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc. (JFTC) has sponsored an annual essay competition to encourage students, young researchers and business people to express their opinions on matters of national and international importance.
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June 2012
The 12th National Consumer Value Research Survey
I&S BBDO conducted its 12th National Consumer Value Research (CoVaR®) survey in May 2012. The survey targeted 2,500 men and women nationwide aged between 18 and 69.
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June 2012
Improving the Quality of Life for Acne Sufferers in Japan
According to an acne-perception study by prominent US psychiatrist Dr Eva Ritvo, teenagers and adults have a negative perception of teens with acne, seeing them as generally shy, less socially active, more likely to be bullied, and less successful at finding a job.
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June 2012
Times are Changing
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything was 42. Alarmingly, it is also the answer to the question “How long have I been teaching?” The 1970s was when it all began: the start of a decade of strikes by postal workers, miners and dustmen, ending in the winter of discontent.
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May 2012
A World of Workspaces
As the largest global provider of flexible workspaces, Regus plc each year helps more than 1mn customers focus on their business, rather than the location from which they manage it.
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March 2012
How GSK Helped People in Tohoku
Although its Tokyo headquarters sustained only minor damage from the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011, GSK quickly realised that many others were considerably less fortunate. After first confirming that all employees were safe and determining the amount of damage, the focus turned to helping those most in need.
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February 2012
JFTC 2011 Essay Competition
Essayists from Jamaica and the Philippines fought off entrants from 43 countries around the world to win the top awards in the Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc.’s, 2011 Essay Competition and accepted their prizes in a ceremony at the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo on 6 January.
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February 2012
The British School in Tokyo Celebrates Success
At the British School in Tokyo (BST), we love to celebrate success and it is usually our students who do so well. This time, however, we are celebrating success as a whole school community after a team of independent inspectors confirmed that we are an “excellent” education facility, the highest mark possible.
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February 2012
Yokohama International School
Founded in 1924, the Yokohama International School (YIS) has a pioneering spirit and rich history—being the world’s second oldest establishment with “international school” in its name.
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November 2011
"What we Learn with Pleasure we Never Forget" — Alfred Mercier
At the British School in Tokyo (BST), we pride ourselves on ensuring that our students leave us as well-rounded individuals, fully equipped for the challenges of the future in this fast-changing world. Academic success is one way in which we prepare our students and I am hugely proud of our GCSE and AS results this year.
