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Here is the link to a column I wrote on how Japanese electronics makers have overcome the financial crisis for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan. Excerpt: Japan’s technology sector is currently in the process of transforming itself once again. But this time, there is no...

Here is the link to a column on Japan’s venture capital scene for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan. Excerpt: The adage “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” may just well describe in a nutshell the vicious cycle that the Japanese venture capital (VC) market seems to be...

Slightly off-topic, but here is the link to a column I wrote on Japan’s robot industry I wrote for the journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: Excerpt: Over one million industrial robots are currently toiling around the world, most of them in Japan. There are 295 of these...

Galapagos: Japan’s mobile web has always been different than in the rest of the world. This primer tries to explain why: Over one billion cell phones have been sold worldwide in the last year, but in the US or Europe, the mobile Internet is still catching on relatively slowly. There even was...

My colleague Greg Kumparak is in Japan for a few weeks and -of course- I had to meet him here in Tokyo, which I did today (on very short notice!). Greg is the editor-in chief of MobileCrunch, a relatively new -yet very successful- blog belonging to the Techcrunch network. MobileCrunch covers...