Strategy

• Teaser ads
• Survivors and Thrivers
• H. Matsuda discusses strategy
• 100 Years of Marketing
• Japan consumers: slides
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• Multi-sided markets
• Consumption patterns
• Japan is Back
• Home Centers
• Third beer in Japan
• Onigiri - Rice balls in Japan

Richard's Eye

Japan's Seasonal Factors Seasonal income flow & impact on consumer spending

Arbitrage & Consumers Law of "One Price" in consumer  product markets

Japan Viewed from the Outside "Gai-jin,"  outsiders, views of Japan uncover new insights

Mobile phone usage habits -- Japan, China, U.S. JMR study finds culturally influenced patterns

Richard May -- interview on iTV Video clip -- marketing research trends in Japan now

Software-as-a-Service SaaS changes how you acquire software

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Case Studies/Japanese Market

Konbini: Japan’s all-in-one convenience store

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JMR in Print

Economic Weather Chart of 47 Prefectures

New book from JMR on economics of marketing

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Now when business people arrive in Japan their first stop is often a Tokyo hotel in the central business area.   The visitor is struck by the dense and fairly well-organized frenzy of economic activity.   This is due  to the agglomeration of economic activity:  Of the 2,000 plus super-large corporations listed on the 1st section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange,  some 970 firms are crowded into just three of the most central wards of the city, Minato, Chiyoda and Chuo (encircled in red on the map and shown in red in the right-side list).