The promise of renewable energy has always been alluring. Now that the technology has caught up to the promise, record amounts of wind and solar are coming onto the grid both in Japan and throughout the world.  - But so far startups,

It's a great time to be a programmer in Japan. Everyone is hiring and there simply is not enough talent available. - But why is that? - The truth is that until about 10 years ago, programming was considered kind of a blue-collar, low-skill job.

Bringing change to a conservative industry is not easy. Freee took the radical (for Japan) step of relying almost entirely on inbound sales.

This Japanese chatbot company has been flying under the radar. They are already profitable and are now going global.

Everything about employment in Japan is changing. - Lifetime employment is gone.  Skilled workers are discovering that they have job mobility and large Japanese companies are increasingly confused by the fact that many new graduates don't want to work...

Uber and Airbnb represent a new very kind of startup, one that could not have existed twenty years ago, and the very thing that make these companies so transformative in the United States ensures they will never succeed in Japan. You see...

The developed world is facing a severe programmer shortage. Around the world, coding boot camps have stepped into this gap to teach newcomers basic programming skills quickly. - But in like so many other areas, Japan is different. -

For decades, Japan has been struggling with the economic need to attract more foreign residents to the country and the general social reluctance to do so. - Over the years there have been some well-publicized failures and a few quiet successes,

The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the world, launch vehicle and spacecraft technology has made incredible gains over the past decade, but here in Japan its still mostly the same government con...

There is something odd about the way we treat sleep.  - We understand that it is essential for good health, but we are almost ashamed when we admit that we get enough of it. We are rightfully proud when we keep our resolutions to go to the gym mor...