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Interview with Kenji Kasahara

Mixi is the biggest social networking site (SNS) in Japan with more than 10 million users and a firm grip on popular culture. Founder Kenji Kasahara started up his first company when he still was a student at Tokyo University and later set up Mixi in 2004. Although it exploded into a company which recently listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, he remains low-key about his staggering success at a young age. Talk Asia follows him at work, discussing his impact on Japanese culture and vision for the future of the Internet, before taking him back to his roots at Tokyo University's world-famous business school.

Developing a successful 'gadget strategy'

Petr Matous, a grad student at the University of Tokyo, is an unlikely character. First off, he excels in sumo wrestling -- despite having grown up in the Czech Republic and being rather thin.

Now you see me, now you don't

If you have ever wished you could be invisible, just like Harry Potter in his magic cloak, you are in luck, thanks to an invention by a Japanese scientist.

Fortune: A LOOK INSIDE A JAPANESE SCHOOL Don't expect fancy fixtures or lots of expensive electronic gadgets. But you will find plenty of

JAPAN'S STUDENTS score so high against other youngsters in standardized international tests, and its schools turn out such able workers and managers, that the country's educational system has becom...

Fortune: WHO RUNS JAPAN? ! Answer: the bureaucrats. They're reliable, pro-business, and well entrenched. So don't worry too much that the

THINK OF THE DRUBBING that the Japanese Socialist Party gave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in July's upper house elections. Now think of it as something like a college all-star baseball team ...

Fortune: A RADICAL RETAILER SEIJI TSUTSUMI b. MARCH 30, 1927

AS DUSK SETTLES on Tokyo, sparkles of light blink atop a boutique-filled complex called Parco. Densely packed neon signs below engulf the area in a fairy tale-like glow. But this is real. This is t...

Fortune: THE BIGGEST BOSSES 26. YUTAKA KUME NISSAN MOTOR CREATING A NEW CULTURE

Since becoming president of Nissan Motor two years ago, Yutaka Kume, 66, has brought a new spirit to a company long burdened with a bureaucratic culture and a falling market share. For example, he ...

Fortune: SUPERCONDUCTORS GET INTO BUSINESS Now that electricity can be transmitted with superefficiency, companies are exploring uses tha

AFTER MONTHS of rising excitement, the big breakthrough came in May at IBM's sleekly sinuous Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Scientists had been making astoundingly ...

Fortune: Now if they can only play football

What trade war? There's at least one U.S. product Japan is trying its best to import: education. The Japanese are wooing U.S. colleges to open branch campuses in Japan away from major cities. Sever...

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