Most Tokyoites are not thrilled with job-searching platform For more than three decades, my resume has constantly been updated to signal my intention to work for somewhere else. Somewhere is the work place in Tokyo to enhance my career as business consultant and college lecturer. The best place I thought…

MBB advisors work around the clock in a different market In early 1990’s, I joined a global beverage company in Atlanta, GA. It was a dream job of local residents who admire a dark soda to cure the head ache around the globe. It was an invention of chemists by…

Management consultants face harsh criticism from clients in Tokyo More than twenty-years ago, I landed one of the most exciting jobs in Tokyo, management consulting. The job offers a good pay, a thrilling experience with clients, and complex problem-solving. The experience resembles the fight in the classroom of business schools…

How do you settle the debate over academy v. company? Soon after I obtained my MBA from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), I left Atlanta for Tokyo to resettle my residential location to work and live a new life in a beverage giant from the familiar brand next to…

Corporate succession meets a new challenge For nearly a half a century, a puzzle in corporate world persistently makes business people pale for a long time, especially for a large successful and somewhat global enterprise. A success came by chance without making a tough decision during a life-long protective employment…

Young elites from Tokyo go to the third or fourth choice. The unprecidented bubble economy went blast in October 1987. Three years later, young Tokyoites including myself were thrown out of the corporate office with a loss in stock and property market. A loss incurred not only in capital markets…

Fewer and fewer executives head for Cambridge and Palo Alto. On May 30th this year, Takeshi Niinami, CEO of Suntory made an opening remark at his online event of Harvard Business School in Tokyo. The remark left a bit unexpectedly resentful regret. “I am a CEO of consumer packaged good…

Most residents in the Tokyo area, the part of Kanto plain with 30m dwellers, have been waiting for heroes and being hooked on love romance around the clock. Enchanted by formidable power and eternal love, Tokyoities praise any hero as happily as ever. …

Roughly four decades ago, I opened a checking account at First of America Bank in Ann Arbor, Michigan. With my Japanese passport, a banker assisted me in becoming an owner of $1,000 for use in academic purpose. This ownership has been a token of being part of America for a…