Whenever you hear someone claim that the Japanese will never do something for unspecified "cultural reasons", you know there is a fortune to be made. - Lu Dong is the co-founder and CEO of Japan Foodie, a cashless payment system currently masquerading...

Japanese thoughts on risk are changing, but they are changing slowly. - Many people still consider failure to be a permanent condition, and that makes it hard to take risks, or in some cases even to be associated with risks. -

The conventional wisdom is that traditional Japanese companies can't innovate. - And traditionally, that's been true.  Hosoo, however, might be carrying on a 1200-year-old tradition, but they are hardly a conventional company. -

Welcome to Disrupting Japan, straight talk from Japan’s most successful entrepreneurs. - I’m Tim Romero and thanks for joining me. - Twice a month, you and I will sit down meet the founders of some of Japan’s most innovate startups.

Disrupting Japan is four years old, so we decided to invite a few hundred movers and shakers from Tokyo’s startup community over to have few drinks and to hear three of Japan’s most successful foreign startup CEOs talk about what it takes to succeed in...

There are a lot of aerospace startups in Japan these days. We are seeing innovation in everything from component manufacturing to satellite constellations to literal moonshots. - All of those, however, depend on the ability to place new satellites in ...

There are relatively few biotech startups in Japan. - Few investors are willing to write the multi-million dollar checks and have the decades-long patience that is required to really succeed investing in this industry. - But startups find a way,

Most of us don't actually zone out in front of the TV. In fact, we give off all kinds of clues to what we really think about the shows we are watching. - Japanese startup, T-Vision Insights has come up with a way both to measure and to monetize those ...

The single most common question I get asked are variations of "How do you start a business as a foreigner in Japan?"  or "What's it like to start a startup as a foreigner in Japan?" - It's always been a hard question to answer simply because it is suc...

Japan had been a global leader in robotics for decades, but recently the traditional Japanese leaders have been losing ground to the better-funded and better-publicized firms coming out of America and China. - Mujin is changing that.