PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

New Company Car, New Company Tag Line

8月

16日

This is our newest fleet of cars. And this Hybrid Civiv got the new Tag Line for PSPINC.

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that does a whole lot more.

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I just love the sound of "NO SALES TAX".

8月

13日

Don't you love the sound of "NO SALES TAX"? I know McLendons is paying the sales tax by discount the product by about 10%. But NO SALE tax sounds better than 10% off store wide.

http://www.mclendons.com/

I just hate paying tax to the State. They just spend it no matter how much we give them. I heard they are giving themselves a raise while they are cutting school and emergency service funds.

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What can you sell to people in China?

8月

10日

Whole lot of Chinese people come to Japan to buy small electronics goods like rice cooker in Japan. Although, some of those items are made in China, but not available in China.

Do not think Chinese people are poor. Even if only 10% people are wealthy, that 10% is more than the population of Japan. There are over 1.3 billion people in China. 10% of that is 130 million people. That is more than 1/3 of the population of the US.

People around the world made mistake by thinking Chinese can only afford inexpensive goods. They do buy cheap things. They buy expensive things. Thing that they cannot yet to make.

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Fluent in Japanese

8月

10日

When you do translation, interpretation, or localization in Japanese language, you need someone native with business experience. There is no way someone who is not native Japanese can do any of those things at professional level no matter how fluent one is.

Even with native Japanese, if one has no business experience, that person will be able to create an acceptable Japanese language documents.

You need to hire a professional Japanese writer or hire a professional company or just do not do any Japanese translation. It is better to keep it in English than bad Japanese.

PSPINC (http://www.pspinc.com) has done Japanese localization of software for over 100 titles before it started its Internet Web hosting business in 1996.

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The T-shirt says, I am looking for a Japanese girl friend.

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Black Angus 12oz Steak in Tokyo

8月

7日

Japan is the home for Kobe Beef but they love Angus beef too. And at Trader Vic's in Tokyo, 12oz Angus Beef Stake Dinner costs 8,000yen (or US$93 at current exchange rate of 86yen to a dollar).

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Chambers Bay

8月

6日

I was invited to play at Chambers Bay in Tacoma today. It was a warm day and they do not allow any electric carts there. I reduced my club to minimum set and walked.

I shot 44 and 52. Back 9, I was exhausted, This is the course for US Amateur Golf later this month. This was the second time. The course was as tough as I remembered.

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NutriSystem ... 4 Weeks Meal

8月

3日

I ordered NutriSystem 4 weeks plan ... I received the package today. They are all dry foods. You need to buy in addition to this meal kit, milk, vegetable, fruit to make them a complete meal. Besides, although i ordered D (diabetic) meal, it came with chocolate chip cookies and other things that has more sugar than I usually eat.

On TV Ads., they sound like that they deliver complete meals ... they don't. I am not happy and will not recommend to anyone. It is a lot more work than they want you to believe. I did order 4 weeks supply and got 6,000 DELTA miles. So, I am okay with $308 I spent.

You will never know until you order one.

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Product Pricing

8月

2日

I saw this car at my golf club yesterday. This is Mercedes Benz SLS 63 AMG. It cost $183,000 in the US. It is a very expensive car, but this car costs 50% more (almost $280,000) in Japan. This 50% hike is not due to any tax. It is just due to the MB's pricing strategy.

If you are in the market for this car in Japan, it would be wise to buy one and import it to Japan. You would still save over $60,000.

I am not suggesting you should export cars to Japan. But with the current exchange rate, there are many business opportunities for the companies in the US to export products to Japan.

Where are MADE IN THE USA products when you need them?

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New Company Car --- Honda Civic Hybrid

7月

30日

We just took delivery of brand new Honda Civic Hybrid from Lynnwood Honda. It replaced three year old another Honda Civic LX we leased from Lynnwood Honda.

Now except from Honda Odyssey Station Wagon, all our cars get better than 40 miles per gallon. We are really working hard to reduce carbon footprint.

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Starbucks is not the only choice

7月

30日

When you visit Japan, you will see many coffee shops including Starbucks. But unlike here in the US, Starbucks is not a dominating coffee shop in Japan. This picture was taken at EXCELSIOR CAFE in Tokyo. It is one of the higher end coffee shops in Japan.

The biggest difference between Starbucks and Japanese Coffee shops is smoking is allowed in Japanese coffee shops. In this location, glass enclosure you see on the right is the smoking section.

Smoking is not allowed on the street of Tokyo.

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