Richard's Eye

Japan's Zen-Like Consumer
Steady-state economy & Japan's reluctant consumers
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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Strategy 100 Cases



JMR corporate studies - from the JMR online library of Japanese consumer goods corporations below are partial case studies  in English for two companies,  Isetan, the luxury department group home to Isetan and Mitsukoshi and Fast Retailing, the owner of the Uniqlo retail casual brand empire.

 Isetan (.pdf)

 Fast Retailing / Uniqlo (.pdf)


 


For a fuller listing in English of available cases, updated as of 2010, download the .pdf list here.

View the Japanese online case list by clicking on the image below (page in Japanese).