What This 330-Year-Old Company is Learning from Startups
The conventional wisdom is that traditional Japanese companies can’t innovate. And...
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Category: Uniquely Japanese Startups
How Dancing Satellites from Japan Will Clean Up Outer Space
There are a lot of aerospace startups in Japan these days. We are seeing innovation in everything...
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Men and Women Watch TV Differently. Here’s how to make money from that.
Most of us don’t actually zone out in front of the TV. In fact, we give off all kinds of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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