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5 Japanese Business Dinner Mistakes to Avoid — and What They Taught Me About Business in Japan

By Mike Kim / Special to The Japan News 16:54 JST, December 1, 2025 When I first started doing business in Japan in 2016, the initial cultural...

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Is Japanese Really Needed for Doing Business in Japan? / Startups Often Deal with Big Corporations in English

By Mike Kim / Special to The Japan News 11:03 JST, May 14, 2025 Late in 2023, a Japanese executive of a major Japanese corporation took me out to...

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U.S. Startups Can Help Support Japanese AI Applications; Synthetic Data One Way to Boost Learning by AI

By Mike Kim / Special to The Japan News 12:03 JST, March 26, 2025 My guest and I raised our first beers with a “kampai” toast at Andy’s Shin...

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Mike Kim