How to enter Japanese market
How to kickstart business in Japan? How to avoid well-known mistakes? Breaking into Japan’s market: why does it make sense? Quick answer: Japan is the world’s third largest market, competitor, and partner. With 125 million people it’s a large and important country. Japan is an innovation power house – many recent global technology revolutions started in Japan: The global mobile internet revolution started February 22, 1999 in Japan with Docomo’s i-Mode mobile payments and electronic money many years earlier than elsewhere the global solid state lighting revolution started in Japan with the invention of GaN LEDs by Shuji Nakamura , for which Shuji Nakamura, Hiroshi Amano, and Osamu Akasaki were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Get a feeling for the size of Japan’s markets world’s third largest GDP, Japan represents about 10% of the world’s economy 25% of the world’s high-tech products are made in Japan, 30% of all cars a...