Tag: global
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The end of globalisation / グローバル化の終わり
日本文が後ろに続きます。 When I started my career in the late 1990s, my employer encouraged us to have a global mind to cope with Japan’s recession so-called “the lost decade”. By 2000, the words “global” and “globalisation” were used as the keywords — and sometimes buzzwords — for surviving the upcoming new millennium, followed by the dot-com…
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Festivals in spring / 桜の季節のお祭りたち
I went out and walked around various places in the cherry blossom season this year. Here are some of the pics. 今年の桜の季節はいろんな場所を歩いてきました。
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National Azabu Supermarket closed / ナショナル麻布スーパーマーケット閉店
日本文が後ろに続きます。 National Azabu Supermarket at Hiroo, where foods, groceries, books, toiletries and stationery imported from abroad were available, terminated operation as of today due to the age of its building. The Hiroo neighbourhood is one of the places I visited very frequently because the training centre of the company I worked for was in that…
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Japan’s mobile environment today
Sorry for not updating the blog for a long time. These days I’m hanging out on Facebook and Twitter, rather than writing blog entries. Please visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/masayuki.kawagishi or follow @_Yuki_K_ on Twitter 😉 I see that the world of mobile phones is rapidly changing for years. Nokia, one of the dominant…
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Some requests on Japanese mobile phones / 総務省のＳＩＭロック解除要請に寄せて
日本文が後ろに続きます。 I heard the news that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan started discussing a policy to require mobile phone carriers to release SIM-lock-free handsets from the next generation. As is often written in some other entries of this blog, I have been dissatisfied with the current cellular phones in Japan because…