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Small but Not Silent: Japan’s Youth Pursue New Forms of Influence

As average life expectancy creeps up and the number of newborns continues to decline, Japan’s inverted population pyramid is becoming even sharper toward the bottom...
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The Future of People in the Workplace: The Rise of Japan’s Freelance Community

In this changing societal landscape, Japan is also observing a rapid growth in its freelance population and economy...
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The Digital Garden City Nation: Opportunities Abound in Japan’s Changing Social Landscape

The basic concept of the Vision is to use technology and digital infrastructure to “create a society where anyone can comfortably and conveniently live anywhere in the country.”..
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A Pending Boom in Japanese M&As Requires New Forms of Cultural Intelligence

Among the various means of achieving foreign market expansion, Japanese firms have turned time and again to a classic pair: mergers and acquisitions...
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Increasing the Presence of Startups in Japan

According to the most recent research by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, entrepreneurship activity in Japan remains low compared to the global average. ..
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Japan’s Economic Security Agenda Under the New Kishida Administration and How It Directly Affects Business

Japan is caught in a situation where it needs to balance its national interests in the context of the ever-increasing geo-political and economic rivalry...
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Expanding the Stakeholder on Japanese Stakeholder Capitalism

Japanese companies lag behind others in their evaluation of management of ESG issues – particularly the S; why is this and how can it be improved?  ..
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Keio University Adovacy Campaigning Lecture Recap

As a leading global company in public affairs and strategic communication, APCO's Tokyo office had the opportunity to hold a lecture on advocacy campaigning with a class of international and Japanese students at Keio University...
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Creating a Culture That Boosts Employee Engagement

Today, enhancing the engagement of employees is critical to a company’s near and long-term successes and helps to retain the best talent. Based on our experience in Japan, here are three key elements that global companies should consider...
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What Would It Mean for Values to Drive Your Business?

If you are truly committed to maximizing business performance, attracting and retaining the best talent, and contributing to a broader societal mission, then you also must do the work to define (or more ideally, co-create) your company’s core values, to establish internal programs and processes that reinforce them, and to integrate them into every aspect of the business, every expression of the brand. ..
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