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That’s both good and bad. Education is so important to both individuals and society, it should not be changed on a whim, but over time it seems that our institutions of higher education have drifted …
Blue Innovation attracted a lot of international attention last year when they announced the T-Friend done system. This dystopian drone flies around offices after hours reminding staff not…
Last month 500 Startups and Disrupting Japan held a joint event that focused on how Japanese and foreign staff can work best together at startups. As the event, I had a great discussion with three st…
Atmoph is a programmable window which can display the sights and sounds of hundreds of scenic places from all over the world. It’s an exciting project, and the team attracted a great deal of early in…
Japanese enterprises are particularly susceptible to disruption, and Japanese startups have a harder time than most pivoting. Both of these problems stem from the same root, and today we are going to…
FinTech in Japan is far more advanced than most outside observers imagine it to be, and based on new deregulation and government incentives, finTech in Japan is about to accelerate even more.
This is a short and very personal episode. Things will be changing for me and for Disrupting Japan, and sometimes when you are facing a lot of big changes, it really helps to be able to share your th…
Japan has a long history of small shopping streets and tiny markets. In fact, despite the population density, American-style mall culture never took off here. The back streets of even the most c…
It’s rare for a Japanese startup to challenge NTT and come out ahead. But that’s exactly what Takehiro Ogita and his team at TownWiFi have accomplished. TownWiFi is a mobile app that automatical…
We talk a lot about Japanese startups on this show and the role they will play in shaping Japan’s economic future. Well, today we are going to look at this from a different angle; one that …
