125: How Japan’s Unique Relationship with Robots is About to Make it #1 Again
Japan had been a global leader in robotics for decades, but recently the traditional Japanese...
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Category: Uniquely Japanese Startups
124: What They Never Teach You in Language School – Peter Galante Japanese Pod 101
Twenty years ago, we all thought that starting a startup required a special and rare kind of...
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120: This Startup Just Built Japan’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
Preferred Networks is making changes in Japan. Over the past few years, this AI startup has raised...
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118: This Japanese Startup Is Using Your Phone to Make Insurance Social
The insurance industry has proven very resistant to innovation. In fact, it has not really changed...
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115: A Successful Kickstarter Campaign Almost Bankrupted This Startup
Hardware is hard. In fact, sometimes the simplest and most straightforward ideas turn out to be...
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113: Japan Announces Plans to Land on The Moon by 2020
We startup founders and investors like to talk about “moonshots”. It points out startups that have...
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108: This Japan Startup Is Changing the Way Your Kids Buy Fashion
Japanese fashion is unique, and so is the entire Japanese fashion industry. Today I would like to...
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104: This Japanese Startup Beat Out NASA to Create Affordable Bio Jet Fuel
There is far more to startups in Japan than SaaS software and IoT hardware companies....
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95: How This American Got The Japanese Government to Fund His Startup – enTouch
Two of the most persistent and damaging myths about Japan are that it is hard to start a company...
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92: The Little Startup from Japan That Took Down NTT – TownWiFi
It’s rare for a Japanese startup to challenge NTT and come out ahead. But that’s exactly what...
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90: How this Musical Shoe Startup is Helping Hospitals – No New Folk Studio
Most great startup ideas don’t grab your attention right away. It takes a while before the...
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89: How One Good Idea Emerged from Japan’s Nuclear Disaster – Safecast
After the March 2011 earthquake and the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, TEPCO and...
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