Uchikura & Co Blog
2026-04-29
Japan Business Travel: Where Do You Stay in Tokyo—and How Do You Choose? When you travel to Tokyo for business, how do you decide where to stay? This is something I often wonder—not just for visi...
2026-04-28
Ignore Troll An internet troll is someone who deliberately posts provocative, aggressive, or disruptive comments online to upset others, create conflict, or derail meaningful discussion. Their goal i...
2026-04-28
Starbucks Took Almost 20 Years to Realize What Tottori Already Knew When Starbucks opened its first store in Japan’s Ginza district in 1996, it began a nationwide expansion that eventually reached ...
2026-04-27
Digital Marketing 101 for Business Owners JASSW is proud to host a special JAS-NET event in collaboration with PSPINC, focused on helping business owners better understand digital marketing in toda...
2026-04-27
Lower Taxes, Bigger Harvest: A Muromachi-Era Lesson Still Relevant Today During Japan’s Muromachi period, Ise Sōzui (later known as Hōjō Sōun) is often remembered not just as a military strategist,...
2026-04-27
When a government raises taxes aggressively, then penalizes people or businesses for leaving, it can look less like confidence and more like desperation. History offers examples. The United State...
2026-04-27
Japan has restarted TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6 Nuclear Power Plant with a clear goal: reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Japan operates one of the world’s largest nuclear fleets, with 33 ope...
2026-04-26
When Politics Tells Business to Leave, Business Eventually Listens If a mayor—especially one driven more by ideology than economics—tells people to boycott companies that helped build and support t...
2026-04-25
Exceeding Expectations People don’t get excited when things go as planned—that’s expected. What creates impact is when something goes beyond. That small gap between expectation and reality turns ...
2026-04-24
Service Without Taking — A Lesson from Japan’s Self-Defense Forces When disaster strikes in Japan—earthquakes, tsunamis, floods—the Japan Self-Defense Forces are among the first to arrive. Their ro...