Uchikura & Co Blog
2026-03-16
Honesty in Japanese Food Packaging One thing that often surprises people who visit Japan is how strict the country is about food packaging. In many places around the world, marketing departments tr...
2026-03-16
SiteMonster — 20 Years of PSPINC Monitoring Technology, Now Free In January 2003, PSPINC developed an internal monitoring tool called SiteMonster. At the time, we needed a reliable way to continuousl...
2026-03-15
Businesses Are Moving Away When businesses begin leaving a city or a state, it rarely happens overnight. At first, it is small signs. A company decides to open its next office somewhere else. Anoth...
2026-03-14
The Difference Between a Factory Suit and a Tailor Shop When people compare technology companies, they often assume that bigger automatically means better. But that is not always true. Sometimes th...
2026-03-14
A Store Full of Clothes — Does This Business Model Really Work? Every time I walk into a clothing store like GAP (and I am not picking on GAP specifically), I am always amazed at the number of clot...
2026-03-13
What Does the Japanese Word “Kokoroe (心得)” Mean? Japanese has many words that do not translate perfectly into English. One of those words is “Kokoroe” (心得). If you try to translate it directly, i...
2026-03-13
Origin of Godzilla — Hero in Hollywood, Monster in Japan When people outside Japan think of Godzilla, many imagine a giant monster that protects humanity, fights other monsters, and sometimes even ...
2026-03-13
A Company Older Than Islam Here is an interesting piece of history that many people outside Japan do not know. There is a construction company in Japan called Kongō Gumi, and it is widely recogni...
2026-03-12
Is Washington State Pushing Businesses and People Out? Recently, I have begun to feel something strange about the direction of Washington State politics. It sometimes feels as if the state governme...
2026-03-11
When Perfection Appears, Decline Begins — The Meaning of the Japanese Saying “満れば欠ける” There is an old Japanese saying: 「満れば欠ける」 (Mitsureba Kakeru). A simple translation would be:“When something b...