Rovio Entertainment, Nexon and Gaming News: Laes Named Rovio’s EVP Laura Leiva & Horace C. White Modern Tokyo Times Jami Laes has been named as the EVP of Games for Rovio Entertainment, the company announced April 18. Laes’ extensive experience in the gaming industry makes him an ideal choice to head the game division and [...]
Women Holding Senior Management Positions: Japan and Russia Highlight the Huge Gap Pierre Leblanc and James Jomo Modern Tokyo Times Another important international business survey paints a rather damning view of the role of women within senior management positions in Japan. The survey carried out by Grant Thornton and which involved 6,000 international businesses, confirms [...]
Tokyo and Osaka fashion: H&M to introduce Monki and Weekday to Japan in the future Kanako Itamae and Michel Lebon Modern Tokyo Times The fashion company Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) is going from strength to strength in Japan. This reality means that H&M will introduce two of their brands to Japan within the near [...]
Essential vibes (2): K-pop, hip-hop, Pakistan music, Swedish house, trance and UK Sarah Deschamps and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The global village is getting smaller but despite this the world is faced with countless problems, therefore, music is a welcome release and can be a force of good. After all, music can transcend [...]
Review of 2011 internationally and events in Japan (March 11 and brutal tsunami) James Jomo and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In 2011 many political convulsions have challenged nations in North Africa and the Middle East. The optimism of the so-called “Arab Spring” remains to be unfulfilled because you have so much uncertainty in [...]
Chancellor Merkel and arrogance: is she really committed to save the Euro? Vojin Joksimovich, PhD Modern Tokyo Times Germany has lost two world wars but has won the peace to become the dominant power in Europe. Until the reunification in 1990 Germany was an economic giant but a political dwarf. With reunification Germany started flexing [...]
Debt-Driven US and EU Economies: Failure of Globalization? By Vojin Joksimovich, Ph.D. Modern Tokyo Times This is my third article on the subject of debt-driven economic crisis of the leading capitalist economies. In the first one published on July 21, titled EU, US, & Japan: Dysfunctional Leaderships are Gambling with leading Capitalist Economies, for the first [...]
After Oslo: Lessons for the United States By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. The Heritage Foundation Last Friday, tragedy struck Oslo, Norway, as homegrown terrorist Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb in the heart of the city and then traveled to a nearby island and opened fire on a youth camp. In a mere [...]
The Tragedy in Norway By Patrick Dunleavy Special to IPT News Investigative Project on Terrorism On Friday morning the world was confronted with the evil madness of Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused of killing 76 people in Norway. The profile coming out now describes the man as a “right-wing Christian Fundamentalist.” He also posted [...]
Anders Behring Breivik: media spin and hypocrisy in the name of Islamic Sharia law Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Many individuals and writers who are rather timid in responding to homosexuals being hanged in Iran, amputations in Saudi Arabia for minor crimes, raped women being stoned to death in Somalia and then linking this with [...]
Anders Behring Breivik: Psychological motives behind the killings and Islam? Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The image of Norway is one of tranquility and a society embedded with liberal and democratic principles. However, before the recent killing spree by Anders Behring Breivik it was apparent that the changing nature of places like Oslo, Drammen, [...]
PartyM8: Interactively helps creative people by Creative Elv8ion PartyM8 (mate) interactively helps creative people organize events, parties and other projects in an entertaining and stylish way. It creates user value by combining structured event planning capabilities with entertaining 3D-graphics and intelligent content-based tips, direct Facebook upload & integration included. Unlike other planning apps and [...]
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