Domestic sales of video cameras dropped by 5.7% in 2007 to just 1.34 million units. The blame…failing birthrate. Who are parents going to film I guess?
Last year Japan made a shift to recording high-quality images in a long-time format = no tapes, DVDs. The shift was to make storage on Hard Disk […]
Menswear sales are down in Japan for the first time in three years. Wearing less clothes I wonder.
Sales were off 0.5% to just Y2.79 trillion ($130B). Poor sales were blamed on a long late summer heat and fading of the trend in Cool Biz. Gotta blame somebody or something, eh?
The top 5 menswear companies by […]
Kirin Brewery will product, one with a higher alcoholic content - 7%.
A 350-milliliter can, called Kirin Strong Seven will sell for about Y140 ($1.30).
Earlier, Kirin launched a vodka-based beverage with an alcoholic content of 8%. It was a hit…or at least it seemed so to the slobbering drunks who participated in the survey.
An advantage […]
Sony will launch a new version of its PlayStation Portable hand-held game player.
It will feature an advanced liquid crystal display in Japan and other parts of Asia, North America and Europe.
The basic design and functions are the same….the upgrade is in the higher resolution and a built-in microphone has been added.
The upgrade PSP will go […]
Japan leads the world in 3G cell phone proliferation. The country has 104 million 3G handsets in use. The population of Japan is only 120 million.
One of the most popular mobile technologies is the “wallet phone.”
The technology relies on a tiny computer chip called FeliCa, embedded in each cellphone, which communicates with a […]
O-matsuri ga suki na hito - a guy/gal who loves a party. That would be and I missed the Japan Blog Matsuri latest edition at TheTokyoTraveler…sorta. RSON missed it.
TTT happens to be a blog in the b5Media network, which, ahem, is the network that this blog, RisingSunOfNIhon, just joined.
Not to take anything away from TTT, […]
RisingSunOfNihon has some new friends…the b5Media network!
For the past 2.5 years RSON was part of the KnowMoreMedia business network. From today, it is now one of the blogs in the business channels of b5.
RSON still considers KMM a friend and appreciates the many valuable lessons and nurturing that the site received from its infancy until […]
Knowmoremedia has three top bloggers.
Razib of SouthAsiaBiz, Tanya of OurBollywood and my three sites PanAsianBiz, RisingSunOfNihon and TheBizOfKnowledge generated more than half of all KnowMoreMedia network traffic.
I don't say that to call attention to myself. KMM gave us the opportunity and we ran with it. What I do want to blow a horn about is […]
