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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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Case Studies/Japanese Market

Japan FAME economic forecasting Contest

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JMR in Print

1. Japan's Non-consuming Consumers

2. Economic Weather Chart of 47 Prefectures

3. JMR on Economics of Marketing

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JMR in Overseas Media

 

		Spain's Well-known Newspaper Visited JMR office:  in "La Vanguardia" (Spain), Nov 21, 2010, issue Spain's well-known Catalan-based newspaper "La Vanguardia" visited JMR's Tokyo offices recently to better understand the deflation consumer economy that Japan has been undergoing.  Hoping to find lessons in distant Japan for problems that Spain foresees in its own future, La Vanguardia's international correspondent Andy Robinson came all the way to Japan to gather evidence for his Spanish audience.   In a section with the lead headline of "Lessons on deflation from Tokyo," JMR's H. Matsuda's comments appeared in the Sunday, November 21, 2010 issue in the "Dinero" [Money] section of the widely respected newspaper.
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Articles

		First usage in English of "kenshohi" to refer to Japanese consumers:  in  "The Economist" (U.K.), Sept 11- 17, 2010, issue As a lead in to a story on Japan's home electronics store group Yamada Denki, The Economist quotes JMR's Richard May discussing the phenomenon of Japan's reluctant consumers, dubbed by JMR in Japanese as "kenshohi" - consumption hating consumers.
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Articles

		ACCJ Journal July 2007 - Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) JMR's Richard May's article in the ACCJ Journal, July 2007 issue on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and what it means to be a U.S. businessmen in Japan. The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, founded over 60 years ago, works to advance U.S. business interests in Japan, the interests of its Japanese partners and business relationships among U.S. and Japanese companies and the government.
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		ACCJ Journal September 2005 - Getting Unwired JMR's Richard May's article in the ACCJ Journal, September 2005 issue on wireless computing in Japan.
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		ACCJ Journal July 2004 - Eye of the Buyer JMR's Richard May's article in the ACCJ Journal, July 2004 issue on eye tracking and how to find out what is really going on in consumers' minds.
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Videos

Interview with JMR Director R. May speaking on iTV-Japan about marketing trends and research in Japan, interviewed by Paul Goldsmith, President of Panache Corporation, a leading IT firm in Tokyo.