Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market

Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market

by Tim Clark, Carl Kay
Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market

Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market

by Tim Clark, Carl Kay

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Overview

Saying Yes to Japan examines the history and future of Japan's service sector, exposing structural shortcomings and offering innovative ways to take advantage of the trillion dollar hole in the nation's domestic economy. Revealing analyses of the real estate, finance, health care, and information technology industries are coupled with up-close profiles of entrepreneurs from around the world who successfully use their "outsider" perspectives to answer surprisingly underserved customer needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781932234183
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Publication date: 04/01/2005
Pages: 175
Product dimensions: 5.53(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.59(d)
Age Range: 16 - 17 Years

About the Author

Tim Clark writes the Japan Entrepreneur Report and serves as Senior Fellow for SunBridge, a Tokyo-based venture capital firm. He teaches at the Portland State University School of Business.

Carl Kay has been founding, running, buying and selling service businesses in Japan and North America for over two decades. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard's East Asian Department and lives in Tokyo.

Table of Contents

Introduction7
Chapter 1Japan's Invisible Economy11
Chapter 2From Clueless to Cash Flow: Finance29
Chapter 3Building on New Foundations: Real Estate57
Chapter 4The Hardware Mentality Hits Hard Times: Information Technology87
Chapter 5Second Opinion Needed: Health Care Services119
Chapter 6Trillion Dollar Treasure147
Afterwords161
Notes166
Index174
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