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Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan

Startups are changing Japan, and Japan is innovating in very different ways. Disrupting Japan introduces you to some of the Japanese innovators that will be household brands in a few years and explain... Read more

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Why Japanese Design Is So Different & What You Should Learn from It

Why Japanese Design Is So Different & What You Should Learn from It

There are a lot of passionate opinions about Japanese design. From the beauty and subtlety of the best Japanese anime to... Read more

27 Nov 2017

30mins

Ranked #2

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How You Can Prepare for Japan’s Coming Wave of Cybercrime

How You Can Prepare for Japan’s Coming Wave of Cybercrime

Corporate Japan is about to go through a major transition in its approach to computer security. In the past, Japan-only ... Read more

18 Sep 2017

38mins

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How Japanese Startups are Breaking into Silicon Valley – Ramen Hero

How Japanese Startups are Breaking into Silicon Valley – Ramen Hero

More and more Japanese founders are moving their startups to San Francisco. It’s easy to see why. There is more venture ... Read more

16 Jan 2017

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What They Never Teach You in Language School – Peter Galante Japanese Pod 101

What They Never Teach You in Language School – Peter Galante Japanese Pod 101

Twenty years ago, we all thought that starting a startup required a special and rare kind of talent. It was something yo... Read more

9 Jul 2018

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Is There (Finally) a Practical Way for Foreigners to Live in Japan?

Is There (Finally) a Practical Way for Foreigners to Live in Japan?

For decades, Japan has been struggling with the economic need to attract more foreign residents to the country and the g... Read more

7 Jan 2019

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A Japanese MBA Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

A Japanese MBA Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

Education is very hard to disrupt.That’s both good and bad. Education is so important to both individuals and society, i... Read more

30 Apr 2018

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What Every Foreigner Needs to Know about Hiring Staff in Japan

What Every Foreigner Needs to Know about Hiring Staff in Japan

Japanese labor law is very different from what is standard in the US or Europe, and more than a few foreigners have made... Read more

25 Dec 2017

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How Startups Can Compete In The New Energy Markets

How Startups Can Compete In The New Energy Markets

The global energy markets are transforming themselves right before our eyes. Very little fundamental change has occurred... Read more

22 Jan 2018

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Outside of the Bubble with Japan’s Startup Girls: Mone Kamishiraishi

Outside of the Bubble with Japan’s Startup Girls: Mone Kamishiraishi

Those of us who spend our lives working with startups live in a bubble. Whether you spend your days programming at a sta... Read more

19 Aug 2019

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What You Need to Know to Raise Money in Japan

What You Need to Know to Raise Money in Japan

Startups and venture capital work differently in Japan.The rounds are smaller, the priorities distinct, and while the sa... Read more

8 Jul 2019

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Live & Unleashed – How to Run a Startup as a Foreigner in Japan

Live & Unleashed – How to Run a Startup as a Foreigner in Japan

Disrupting Japan is four years old, so we decided to invite a few hundred movers and shakers from Tokyo’s startup commun... Read more

1 Oct 2018

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DJ Selects: Why Men Need Women Founders

DJ Selects: Why Men Need Women Founders

Ari Horie has always had a different approach to supporting women entrepreneurs. She doesn't talk about "empowering" wom... Read more

25 Nov 2019

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The Ultimate Guide to Raising Money in Japan [Updated]

The Ultimate Guide to Raising Money in Japan [Updated]

There has never been a better time to be raising money in Japan than right now.Founders ask me about fundraising more th... Read more

6 Jan 2023

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Why Gay Rights Are Good Business in Japan – Koki Hayashi

Why Gay Rights Are Good Business in Japan – Koki Hayashi

Koki Hayashi of Letibee is walking a difficult path by combining a startup business with social activism, but he just mi... Read more

29 Feb 2016

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Foreign Startup Founders Have Secret Advantages in Japan

Foreign Startup Founders Have Secret Advantages in Japan

The single most common question I get asked are variations of "How do you start a business as a foreigner in Japan?"  or... Read more

6 Aug 2018

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Creating Japan’s Open Internet – Kaneto Kanemoto

Creating Japan’s Open Internet – Kaneto Kanemoto

More than ten years before Quora and ZenDesk became famous, there was OKWave. Kaneto Kanemoto founded OKWave to address ... Read more

18 Jan 2016

26mins

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DJ Selects: A Japanese MBA Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

DJ Selects: A Japanese MBA Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

Education is very hard to disrupt.That’s both good and bad. Education is so important to both individuals and society, i... Read more

30 Sep 2019

40mins

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How Dancing Satellites from Japan Will Clean Up Outer Space

How Dancing Satellites from Japan Will Clean Up Outer Space

There are a lot of aerospace startups in Japan these days. We are seeing innovation in everything from component manufac... Read more

17 Sep 2018

40mins

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The Hard Truth Behind Japan’s Cute Robots – Shunsuke Aoki

The Hard Truth Behind Japan’s Cute Robots – Shunsuke Aoki

Japan has a long cultural fascination with human-like robots. Literature, cinema and anime are filled with them, and per... Read more

15 Feb 2016

29mins

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This Japanese Startup Beat Out NASA to Create Affordable Bio Jet Fuel

This Japanese Startup Beat Out NASA to Create Affordable Bio Jet Fuel

There is far more to startups in Japan than SaaS software and IoT hardware companies.Biotech startups are beginning to m... Read more

30 Oct 2017

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