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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With statistical methods JMR extracted various key factors from the data and found individuals attitudes toward their self-actualization needs to be a key factor.  In a three country survey, we found Chinese consumer (at least, the middle and upper-middle class represented in large metro areas such as Shanghai) to have self-actualization needs much greater than U.S. and Japanese individuals.