In 2019, Japan enjoyed its highest foreign visitor numbers on record, rounding off a ten year period of growth in the nation’s tourism sector. Japan’s 2019 Tourist Travel Boom in Numbers 1. The number ...

For many, a smart city begins with technology. In Japan, it starts with a person. In local lore “customer is god,” and the customers of any city are its people. In the Japanese sense, being smart when ...

The Japanese plug-in electric car market is in a disappointing stage. After a 7% decrease in 2018, in 2019 sales decreased by another 17% year-over-year to 43,867. The market share was just 0.8% ...

Just as kids pray for snow so that they can stay home from school, adults desperately want their employers to adopt four-day workweeks. The chance to have that one extra day to relax, take care of ...

Based on 2019 figures, about 78% of the global GDP of $86.31 trillion is attributable to the sixteen economies in the trillion-dollar club. If we look even closer, the top five countries in terms of ...