Low-tech solutions are more likely to be solving real problems. Hiroki is moving his customers from a sustaining innovation to something more disruptive.

Ari Horie has no interest "empowering" women and sensitivity training is not in her toolkit. Ari is showing the startup world that incorporating some of the problem-solving skills and leadership techniques favored by women improves their chance of succ...

So many things that are labeled as "cultural differences" have much simpler explanations. There are perfectly rational (and even mathematical) reasons why we have not seen a lot of entrepreneurship in Japan over the last 50 years,

Gengo understands the need for small-batch translation. Global communication takes place exponentially faster than the project management cycle, and understanding is way too important to be left to machines.

Show 19: Crowdfunding in Japan is Not (only) About StartupsCrowdfunding in Japan is Not (only) About Startups

Yuta Inoue and Quantum have developed a model to help large Japanese companies both work with innovative startups and to remember how to innovate internally. Many find it hard to believe today, but Japanese companies used to be some of the most innovat...

Koichiro Yoshida took CrowdWorks from idea to IPO in less than three years, and today crowd-sourcing is seen as essential to Japan’s future economy.

Asking for help in Japan is viewed as a sign of weakness. One startup is changing that, and already counts large companies and the government as backers.

Investors were skeptical that combining traditional face-to-face learning with a P2P web platform would work. Here's how Takashi Fujimoto proved them wrong.

One Japanese startup founder is on a mission to change not only the way we think about the news, but the way we think about each other. The "filter bubble" is a term that describes the natural, but tragic, result of search engines and news services giv...