S. Nishizawa (consulting engineer/translator/lecturer)



Business



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The Business Environment: In Japan and Globally

Contents

1. Outline 2. IT and Media Broadcasting 3. Media Publishing and Biotechnology 4. Finance and Society 5. Commerce and Lifestyles 6. Science and Intellectual Property Rights 7. Think Tanks and Environmental Businesses 8. Education and Job Aptitude 9. Future Planning and Research 10. Personal Services and Adaptation of New Trends 11. Precision and Sensor Technologies (Robots) 12. Government Services  13. Medical Treatments and Welfare Services 14. Buildings and Barrier-free Environments 15. Conclusions and Long-range Forecasts



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1. Outline
      ● Growth businesses
 ・A society of a declining birthrate and a growing proportion of elderly people
      ● What are the new business fields?

 ・Combining of corporate cultures
Underlined keywords are translated to Japanese and shown below.
企業文化(きぎょうぶんか)
      ● Venture businesses

 ・Entrepreneurs creating innovative new businesses
企業家(きぎょうか)
      ● Prologue about my experiences in the Amazon region

 ・Databook of Internships (The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)



Tokyo's domestic airport

  


 
2. IT and Media Broadcasting
      ● Market expansion of Nokia

 ・Expansion of telecommunication markets and telecommunication technologies
遠距離通信(えんきょりつうしん)
      ● Broadband (The Information Superhighway)

 ・ADSL ・ Optical fiber (FTTH)
      ● Birth of new media

 ・Roppongi media town
      ● Data disclosure

情報開示(じょうほうかいじ)
 ・Student Job General Support Center (The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  


 
3. Media Publishing and Biotechnology
      ● VHS development by the Victor Company in 1976

 ・Way to the international standard
      ● e-Publishing and paper-based publishing

 ・Marketing to children
      ● Cutting-edge technology

先端技術(せんたんぎじゅつ)
 ・Nanotechnology that passes through cell walls in 2015
      ● Evolution of medicine

 ・Genetic medicine businesses
  


 
4. Finance and Society
      ● Life and financial solutions

金融(きんゆう)ソリューション
 ・Financial business of NEC
      ● New financial businesses

 ・Advanced financial traceability methods
追跡可能性(ついせきかのうせい)
      ● Development of financial engineering

金融工学(きんゆうこうがく)
 ・Investment operation analysis and asset management support
資産管理(しさんかんり)
      ● Corporate finance in the future

 ・A strong financial base
Trafalgar Square in London

  


 
5. Commerce and Lifestyles
      ● Strategies to promote lifestyles by department stores

 ・New marketing businesses
      ● Franchise (FC) businesses

 ・Management services of franchisers
      ● Importation of medical equipment

医療機器(いりょうきき)
 ・Responses of specialized trading companies to new medical demands
      ● Amenity-based lifestyles

 ・LOHAS

The #1 department store in London

  


 
6. Science and Intellectual Property Rights
      ● Leading company of the liquid crystal display industry

液晶表示装置(えきしょうひょうじそうち)
 ・Sharp's main product
      ● Computer displays

 ・3D graphics
      ● Genetic research

遺伝子研究(いでんしけんきゅう)
 ・Companies' innovative research projects
      ● Support of intellectual property rights

知的財産権(ちてきざいさんけん)
 ・Licensing, enforcement and education
 
実施(じっし)
  

 
7. Think Tanks and Environmental Businesses
      ● Intellectual human resources

 ・The search for talented individuals
才能(さいのう)のある人
      ● In-house new venture systems

・Patent businesses
      ● Collection of information

情報収集(じょうほうしゅうしゅう)
 ・Role of special project teams
      ● Support of R&D activities

 ・Strengthening of strategies and methods of communication
戦略の強化(せんりゃくのきょうか)



        Old Tokyo Station (under renewal 2007-2012)                       New Tokyo Station (2012.10.1)



8. Education and Job Aptitude
      ● Globalization and education

 ・Change in the educational environment
      ● Businesses related to e-learning


eラーニング
 ・Use by companies
      ● Industry-university cooperation

 ・Study of the human genome

ヒトゲノム
      ● job aptitude

仕事の適性(しごとのてきせい)
 ・Specially related to the special economic educational zones
  


 
9. Future Planning and Research
      ● Job and personal satisfaction

 ・Leisure businesses
      ● Research organizations

調査機関(ちょうさきかん)
 ・Collection and analysis of information
      ● Counselling

 ・Occupation of clinical psychologist
      ● Solution businesses

 ・System integration businesses

Stafford Station in central England

  


 
10. Personal Services and Adaptation of New Trends
      ● Interpretation and translation businesses

 ・Clients: legal affairs, human resources and public relations departments
人事・広報部(じんじこうほうぶ)
      ● Changing lifestyles

・Change of consumer preference from buying to leasing
      ● Home deliverry businesses

 ・Pizza delivery companies
      ● Adjusting to new trends

 ・Adjusting to new consumer needs
  


 
11. Precision and Sensor Technologies (Robots)
      ● Becoming ubiquitous in society

ユビキタス
 ・Providers of input and output to information systems
      ● Growing business area of technology companies

 ・Designing for HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)
      ● Importance of image data processing

 ・In vivo / in vitro sensing
生体内の(せいたいないの)/試験管内の(しけんかんないの)
      ● High-tech equipment used across society

 ・Canon, Ricoh and Shimazu Corporation
Underground in London

  


 
12. Government Services
      ● Regional revitalization

地方創生(ちほうそうせい)
 ・3R businesses (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse)
      ● Public works

 ・Tendering of public works
      ● "Top Runner" / Best Practice standards

 ・Waste disposal systems
      ● Long-range planning

 ・Environmental businesses
  


 
13. Medical Treatments and Welfare Services
      ● Genetic medical treatments

治療(ちりょう)
 ・Stem cell research
      ● Health care markets

 ・Aiming at an aging society
高齢化社会(こうれいかしゃかい)
      ● Psychiatry and medical treatments

 ・Ideas from affluent societies
豊かな社会(ゆたかなしゃかい)
      ● Home nursing businesses

 ・Caregiver / patient relations based on informed consent
  


 
14. Buildings and Barrier-free Environments
      ● Dealing with the "trilemma"

 ・The environment, energy and the economy
      ● Real estate development

不動産(ふどうさん)
 ・Golf course planning
      ● A barrier-free environment has become essential

・Safety and convenience
      ● Housing industry

 ・Building materials revolution



Terraced houses in London

  


 
15. Conclusions and Long-range Forecasts
      ● Information strategies

情報戦略(じょうほうせんりゃく)
 ・Digital information industries in a sustainable society
      ● Business strategy of Advantest

 ・To protect the environment while doing business
      ● Progress of deregulation measures

 ・Global marketing
      ● The biotechnological revolution

 ・The race to success
  


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