Posted in China and Japan on June 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I was listening this afternoon to NPR’s All Things Considered, and was stopped dead in my tracks by this excerpt from a story about a Japanese survivor of the Hiroshima bombing who became an artist and an ambassador of peace:
Hirayama immediately began sketching out what would become one of his most powerful works, a huge, [...]
Posted in Apple in China, Brands, China and Japan, Consumer, Culture, Mobile phone industry, Technology on May 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week, I received a fresh market report from China Polling about the growing popularity of the iPhone in China. Some of their results got me wondering.
First, the numbers:
Unsurprisingly, over 65% have heard of iPhone, and among this group, more than 85% are willing to actually buy an iPhone if it’s available here in China.
While [...]
Posted in Brands, Business-to-business, China, China and Japan, China marketing, Chinese executives, Consumer, Culture, Holidays, National day holiday, Starbucks, Workplace on May 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
1. Open a store at the Great Wall.
We could learn a lot from Starbucks on this front. Their store in the Forbidden City has generated enough negative PR to warrant high-level government discussions on closing it for good. Why? Because the move was perceived as an imperialistic invasion into one of China’s most sacred and [...]
Posted in Automotive industry, Brands, China, China and Japan, China marketing, Culture on April 14th, 2007 No Comments »
With the recent visit by Wen Jiabao to Japan, the press is in a frenzy about Sino-Japanese relations. After all, it’s been seven years since any top-level Chinese officials set foot in the land of the rising sun, and anti-Japanese sentiment looms large as China has historically considered Japan a rival. It was only two [...]
