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American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ), Tokyo:
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos Effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo Westin Hotel, July 12, 2010, 12:00-14:00
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ICA, Tokyo:
"A Snapshot of the Current Mobile Market and Opportunities in Japan"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo, June 17, 2010, 18:30
Embassy of Sweden (Tokyo):
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo, May 19, 2010, 18:30
NIST, Washington DC:
"Will cash become obsolete? Next-next generation electronic and mobile payments in Japan"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,
NIST, Washington DC:
"Understanding Ludwig Boltzmann"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,
MIT Enterprise Forum:
"Next generation Electronic Payments Solutions"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Boston (MA), April 19, 2010,
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Eurotechnology Japan newsletters (monthly reports about Japanese technology trends that matter)
Each monthly issue captures important trends, analyzes financial results, and introduces some of the most remarkable Japanese companies.
Current issue: June 2010
topic: "The beauty of Japan's Galapagos effect and how to go beyond"
(based on presentations to Japan's "Post-Galapagos Committee" and at the Swedish Embassy, organized by Stockholm School of Economics)
Companion to the author's regular CNBC TV interviews
One newsletter issued per month as a pdf-file.
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Japan's Telecom Industry
A market report on Japan's US$ 200 billion telecom industry. The report gives a market overview, quantitative analysis and trend analysis, discusses the key players and visualizes a wealth of statistical and financial data (updated regularly to include data and analysis of monthly subscriber numbers and quarterly financial results, subscriptions include all updates)
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approx. 273 pages, approx. 83 Figures and 115 Photographs and 12 tables, pdf-format, 8.0 Mbyte
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DoCoMo and the i-Mode Ecosystem
Overview report of DoCoMo, the world's most admired mobile operator, and i-Mode, the pioneering mobile internet system with 48.5 Million paying subscribers which started in Japan in February 1999.
Version 25 of June 1, 2009
approx. 187 pages, including approx. 48 Figures and 140 Photographs and 10 tables, pdf-format, 7 Mbyte
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KDDI's success story
KDDI with mobile brand AU has succeeded with 3G data services years earlier than NTT DoCoMo, and will from 2009 start new nationwide UQ WiMax mobile internet services. This report presents an overview of KDDI's businesses and strategies, and includes full FY2009 results and financial projections out to 2010 together with many operational details, statistics and analysis, including for example accurate numbers of base stations deployed over time and more.
Version 14 of July 19, 2009
approx. 216 pages, 36 Figures, 160 Photos, 8 Tables, pdf-format, 12.4 Mbyte
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SoftBank- The Time Machine Company - setting Japan's telecoms on fire...
SoftBank acquired and turned around the former Vodafone Japan operations. As an investment company, SoftBank achieved a 9-times return on invested capital in companies including Yahoo Inc., and Yahoo Japan. Read here why charismatic CEO Masayoshi Son calls it a "time-machine company".
Version 10 of May 12, 2010 (includes full FY2009 results and FY2011 projections)
approx. 149 pages, including approx. 42 Figures and 60 Photographs and 2 tables, pdf-format, 3.6 Mbyte
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eMobile - the New Age mobile operator
eMobile started on March 31, 2007 as Japan's newest mobile operator, has attracted around 1 million subscribers with HSPDA (7.2Mbps) data services. This report analyses eMobile's results and strategy as a "New Age" mobile operator
Version 7 of June 1, 2009
approx. 73 pages, including approx. 21 Figures and 13 Photographs and 9 tables, pdf-format, 1.6 Mbyte
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Japan's 3G success story
This report reviews Japan's 3G market: operators, handsets, software, infrastructure, and services, and the difficulties which had to be overcome to make 3G a success. As Japan's 3G market is several years ahead of most other markets, this report includes answers to the question how other markets can learn from Japan's 3G introduction.
Version 19 of January 19, 2009,
approx. 171 pages, 41 Figures, 48 Photos, 2 Tables, pdf-format, 5.2 Mbyte
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Nintendo and Japan's game industry
With Wii, DS, and DSi Nintendo created several paradigm shifts in global game markets. This report analyses Japan's game industries, and examines Nintendo driven trends in the global game sector from our Japan perspective, including detailed financial analysis. Also included are online and mobile games, which are rapidly growing. A must read for anyone interested in understanding current trends in the game industry (financial data include are for FY ending March 2009 plus projections for the FY ending March 31, 2010).
Version 16 of July 20, 2009
approx. 231 pages, 50 Figures, 83 Photos, 32 tables, pdf-format, 5.1 Mbyte
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Japan's Media Industry
This report analyses Japan's US$ 350 billion media markets. Japan's newspapers have the largest circulation in the world, and Japan continuous to drive many media innovations, such as keitai novels: novels written on mobile phones for mobile phones. New: now includes TV group financials.
Version 8 of May 23, 2009
approx. 173 pages, 25 Figures, 63 Photos, 21 Tables, pdf-format, 6 Mbyte
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Wireless Collection
Collection of ten reports: (1) J-COMM, (2) DoCoMo and i-Mode, (3) KDDI, (4) SoftBank, (5) eMobile, (6) 3G, (7) Mobile TV, (8) Mobile Music, (9) QR Codes, (10) Location based services (LBS)
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Solid State Lighting, GaN LEDs and lasers
This report explains the technologies, markets, key players, and much quantitative analysis to understand the solid state lighting revolution (written by one of the authors of the book "The Blue Laser Diode" by Shuji Nakamura and Gerhard Fasol, Springer Verlag)
Version 12 of January 4, 2009
approx. 122 pages, approx. 25 Figures, 21 Photographs, 9 tables, pdf-format, 2.7 Mbyte
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Japan's electrical companies: "mono zukuri"
Japan's top electrical companies combined are of similar economic size as the Netherlands and play an extremely important role in the world. The report analyzes Japan's electric companies including their financials and trends (including projections for the financial year ending March 31, 2010).
Companion to the author's regular CNBC TV interviews
Version 9 of July 10, 2009
approx. 140 pages, 78 Figures, 16 Photos, 20 tables, pdf-format, 1.9 Mbyte
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Mobile payment, mobile credit and e-money Collection
Collection of five reports: (1) Mobile payment, e-cash and keitai credit, (2) Wallet phones, (3) SUICA and PASMO: mobile and near field tickets for transport (4) Mobile and e-cash payment for vending machines, (5) QR codes and color codes for mobile phones and CRM
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Mobile payments, e-cash and keitai credit
e-Money and mobile payments started in Japan in 1999 - 10 years ago, and usage is growing exponentially. e-Money and mobile payments already today are an important and big part of Japan's economy. This report includes many usage statistics, quantitative analysis and projections. Case studies explain successful business models which can be applied elsewhere in the world.
Version 21 of July 13, 2009
approx. 228 pages, 44 Figures, 106 Photos, 7 Tables, pdf-format, 6.4 Mbyte
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Wallet phones
Wallet phones are mobile phones which can be used as credit cards, electronic cash, rail tickets, club memberships and much more. Japan is ahead of the world in mobile phone payments, this report shows why and how.
Version 15 of August 12, 2008
approx. 187 pages, 20 Figures, 80 Photographs, 6 Tables, pdf-format, 4.9 Mbyte
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SUICA and PASMO: mobile and near field tickets for transport
Almost all Tokyo people pay train trips with SUICA near-field payment cards, often embedded into mobile phones. This report explains technical details, market size and gives a comprehensive overview of the market dynamics of mobile payments end e-payments for transport.
Version 12 of July 9, 2009
approx. 169 pages, 3 Figures, 60 Photographs, 12 Tables, pdf-format, 7 Mbyte
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Mobile and e-cash payment for vending machines
This report describes current status and trends of mobile payment and e-cash (RFID-type) payment systems for vending machines in Japan.
Version 8 of June 9, 2009
approx. 70 pages, including approx. 14 Figures and 35 Photographs, pdf-format, 1.7 Mbyte
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Mobile digital TV in Japan
Digital terrestrial TV (One-Seg, or 1seg) to mobile phones (mobile TV) started in Japan on April 1, 2006, and Japan's 1seg standard is also used in South America including Brazil. This report gives a comprehensive overview of the different types of mobile TV in Japan, describes business models used successfully in Japan for monetizing mobile TV. The report includes quantitative estimates of market size, and details of the numbers of mobile TV phones shipped (includes 2010 data, estimations of how many hours/month people watch mobile TV) and an introduction to DoCoMo's new profitable mobile beeTV
Version 12 of August 12, 2010
approx. 126 pages, 11 Figures, 50 Photos, 12 Tables, pdf-format, 4.7 Mbyte
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Mobile music Japan
Music downloads to mobile phones dominate Japan's online music market and strongly eat into the traditional CDROM market. This report is a comprehensive overview of Japan's mobile music market: ring tones, ringback tones, chaku-uta and chaku-uta-full. Find it all explained here.
Version 12 of May 15, 2006
approx. 177 pages, 27 Figures, 111 Photos, 10 Tables, pdf-format, 14 Mbyte
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QR codes and tags for mobile phones
QR code tags are everywhere in Japan, linking customers to sales and information, and are also used in industry and for government. This report explains the essentials of QR-code, demonstrates about 50 examples of successful QR code usage, and includes statistics on consumer knowledge and usage of QR-codes in Japan.
Version 10 of July 27, 2009
approx. 164 pages, 17 Figures, 90 Photos, 21 Tables, pdf-format, 8.1 Mbyte
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Location based mobile services in Japan
The world's first mobile location based service (LBS), and the world's first mobile phones with GPS (satellite Global Positioning) were introduced in Japan in 2001. Since 2007 all 3G phones sold in Japan must include GPS. Based on early and deep market penetration of GPS, the market of mobile location based services (LBS) is sophisticated and deeply developed in Japan, and this report presents a comprehensive overview.
Version 3 of January 25, 2009
approx. 102 pages, 4 Figures, 67 Photos, 1 Table pdf-format, 6.5 Mbyte
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Eurotechnology Japan newsletters (monthly reports about Japanese technology trends that matter)
Each monthly issue captures important trends, analyzes financial results, and introduces some of the most remarkable Japanese companies.
Current issue: June 2010
topic: "The beauty of Japan's Galapagos effect and how to go beyond"
(based on presentations to Japan's "Post-Galapagos Committee" and at the Swedish Embassy, organized by Stockholm School of Economics)
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Why is Japan's mobile sector so advanced? What can Europe learn?
Presentation given in Tokyo on May 26, 2009
Fundamentals of Japan's mobile markets, and why they are so advanced. Some comparisons with Europe.
24 pages, 12 Figures, 2 Tables, 18 Photographs, 1 MByte
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