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Marketing Tips
What Is the Key to Survival in the Business World?
【Do you think you say thank you enough?】 What about your thank you? My mother very often told me this when I was a kid. Even if it's minor stuff like asking to pass something on the table and forgetting to say thank you, she was naggin... -
Japan Travel in the Know
Hokkaido Nature: Have You Seen How Lumberjacks Cut Trees Now?
【Snowy mountains are really harsh】 Last week a logging company invited us to a mountain tour to see the cutting of trees. While we were going up the mountain plowing through snow, a staff member talked a lot about the troubles they hav... -
Japanese Culture and Traditions
Zoom Fatigue: How to Get Away from Remote Work
【We come to need hotels for another reason】 The COVID destroyed the bright future of the Japanese tourism industry. The number of foreign tourists to Japan was increasing year by year and exceeded 30 million in 2018, when the nationwid... -
Japanese Culture and Traditions
Snow as an Energy Source: The Renewable Energy in Hokkaido, Japan
Snow has already been used as a renewable energy source here. Hokkaido, the northernmost part of Japan, is the largest producer of potato, onion, and rice in Japan, and snow is used to refrigerate those crops during storage. -
Japan Travel in the Know
The World’s Largest Chair Collection in Hokkaido
As I wrote before, our home town is the mecca of wooden furniture, where we have the world's famous chair collector, Noritsugu Oda. The number of chairs in Oda Collection amounts to about 1350, including most of the world masterpiece chairs, of course! -
Japan Travel in the Know
Japan Travel in the Know: Sake (Rice Wine) and Wooden Furniture in Hokkaido
【Have you been to roadside stations in Japan?】 This is one of the basics to enjoy a road trip in Japan, especially in Hokkaido: Make the best use of roadside stations. This transport infrastructure was born in around 1990. It's like re... -
Japan Travel in the Know
Asahiyama Zoo, the Most Popular Zoo in Japan
In the early 90's when I was a kid, the zoo was so boring and a little creepy. It was like a horror movie scene of Stephen King: there were few people; animals were deathly still; old and rusty attractions made a squeak (in the amusement area in the zoo). In 1995, the zoo took the first step to the great comeback by the inauguration of a new director. -
Marketing Tips
Life Is a Two-way Street
【The COVID struck a final blow to the world logistics】 Somewhere in countryside in early morning, a boy on a bicycle is throwing a newspaper to a front porch house-to-house. I'm sure you've watched such a scene in some Hollywood movies...
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