Matt Frei is a BBC reporter working in Japan. He has produced some excellent snippets of life in Japan.
So far the series includes:
Decline of Japan’s family-run factories
Adapting to survive: Lettuce factory
Riding Japan’s bullet train
Meeting Japan’s cyber homeless
Entries from June 21st, 2009
BBC Video news from Japan
June 21st, 2009 No Comments
Tags: adapting inJapan · Asia · bullet train · culture · cyber · factories in Japan · GFC in Japan · Japan · society
Asian region glasshouses !
June 16th, 2009 No Comments
Ponder for a moment the Asian region and its inter-dependencies among neighbouring nations. In the aftermath of the current global economic crisis, China is poised to severely impact the entire region unless demand for its outputs eventuates again. If not the US, where else in the world will demand from the worlds engine room before [...]
Tags: Asia · China · GFC · Morgan Stanley · Recovery · Stephen Roach
Organic no longer compelling enough …
June 15th, 2009 No Comments
The global marketplace is gradually awakening to the goodness of organic produce. However, in this ever changing world in which we live in the “so-called” benefits of purely organic are no longer as compelling. Consumer buying decisions are increasingly influenced by triple bottom line efforts of suppliers. Read the full article
29 July 2009: Building on [...]
Tags: 3BL · culture · international markets · Organic · strategy · sustainability
Connect with an overseas marketplace?
June 10th, 2009 No Comments
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