Launch

Filter May 2013

Filter May 2013

YOUTHFUL INDIAN MARKETS ATTRACT JAPANESE COMPANIES Japanese companies are flocking to India to invest in a range of sectors such [...]

Save The Planet

Isn’t it time you dumped your gas guzzler?

President’s Message

I wish to share a few ob­servations about ACCJ activities this month on the economic impor­tance to the US – [...]

Illustration by Yohei Takahashi

Filter April 2013

CHINESE AIR POLLUTION REACHES JAPAN The Japanese Ministry of Environment has announced that airborne pollution originating in China has reached [...]

President’s Message

The ACCJ People of the Year event held on March 7 at the Tokyo American Club, in honor of Ambassador [...]

SOUNDING OFF

Why we should start to think with our ears

Filter – March 2013

Filter – March 2013

Japan Adds to Defense Budget to Boost Security, Economy In January, Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced plans to add an [...]

Keep Calm and Carry on

Readers of the ACCJ Journal may believe the magazine changes its editor more often than Japan changes its prime minister, [...]

Homeward bound

My own private “furusato”

Illustration by Yohei Takahashi

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LDP Returns to Power On December 16, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) returned to power in a landslide [...]

President’s Message

Most of our readers will have seen that the ACCJ is moving forward in 2013 with the slogan 共就成長 (kyojuseicho), [...]

Get schooled

Reimagining the academy

Illustration by Yohei Takahashi

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Japan’s Economy Shrinks in Third Quarter On November 12 the Japanese government reported that Japan’s economy shrank 3.5 percent in [...]

Happy New Year

Changing of the guard

President’s Message

We’re into 2013 and the Chamber has several interesting initiatives underway already. I’d like to take a moment and review [...]

About Face

Are Japanese consumers warming up to social media?

Illustration by Yohei Takahashi

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Nissan uses futuristic tech to protect By leveraging futuristic technology to make its cars safer, Nissan has set the goal of creating [...]

President’s Message

In this month’s column I wanted to bring everyone up to speed on a recent initiative enacted by the Board [...]

Economics of Choice

Economics of Choice

Is Japan becoming a nation of cheapskates?

Greetings

Taking the helm and looking ahead