by carterjmrn | Jul 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Time Magazine Cover from 1994 By Andrew Edsall Growing up, I remember reading in Time Magazine about how Vegas was going to become family-friendly in the mid-90s by building shopping areas, attractions like indoor theme parks and shows, and convention space. This...
by carterjmrn | Jun 13, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Uncategorized
The LGBT community of Japan may go somewhat unnoticed by the general public, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been making waves in the media. When Liberal Democratic Party member Mio Sugita called homosexual couples “unproductive” and questioned whether it was...
by carterjmrn | Aug 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two recent high-profile information security breaches — Sony and U.S. marketing firm Epsilon — have once again highlighted the critical importance of information security. Each of these incidents were called “perhaps the largest and/or worst information leaks in...
by carterjmrn | Aug 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Two recent high-profile data breaches — at Sony Corp. and U.S. marketing firm Epsilon — have once again highlighted the critical importance of information security. Each of these incidents was referred to as the largest and/ or worst information leak in history and...
by carterjmrn | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am filled with hope as I watch literally everyone I know scrambling to find ways to contribute to the rebuilding of the Tohoku region in this post-quake period. Indeed, it is difficult to think of anything else these days. Almost on a daily basis, we hear stories of...
by carterjmrn | Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
On March 13th, 2011, I sorrowfully opened a folder on my laptop called “earthquake.” One week later, it is as full of documents, links and other data as any one of my complicated market research projects. It is difficult to think of anything else, even for those of us...
by carterjmrn | Nov 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve always chuckled at the way Japan seems to think it is the only place in the world that actually has “4 seasons,” and the news reporting about the ups and downs of sales related to the seasons always awakens my inner marketing cynic. On the other hand, this past...
by carterjmrn | Sep 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Not dissimilar to the dramatic redrawing of retail distribution in the 90s, during which time we saw the advent of outlet malls and 100-yen shops, and the proliferation of convenience stores, the retail landscape is again undergoing another seismic shift....
by carterjmrn | Sep 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
In a 1988 work entitled Postmodernism and Japan,[i] the authors make the interesting hypothesis that what is “postmodern” in the West has existed in Japan in a number of manifestations extending back to what European and American historians term the ‘early...