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"Japan declares victory in the war on floppy discs," notes Kelly Ung of the BBC. Still using floppy discs, Jeremy? It has taken until this year that Japan has finally said goodbye to them. The article explaining that up until last month, folks in Japan were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices with over 1,000 regulations requiring their use.

Sales will near $1.4 trillion this year, with the country ranking fourth behind the US ($7.346 trillion), China ($6.435 trillion), and Japan ($1.410 trillion). Ecommerce sales will grow faster than total retail sales. Retail ecommerce sales will increase by 22.3% in 2023鈥攂ehind only the Philippines鈥攖o reach $118.90 billion.

So a lot of folks might know that it came from Japan. The word karaoke comes from Japanese. It's made up in two parts, apparently. kara, which means empty, and then oke, which means soul. I'm kidding. It doesn't mean soul. That's what it feels when you do karaoke. But if the second part, oke, means orchestra. So an empty orchestra.

Japanese. Oscar Orozco:. Yes, exactly. Japanese [inaudible 00:34:20]. Marcus Johnson:. Oh, yeah. Japanese. Stephanie Taglianetti:. Japanese. Yeah. Oscar Orozco:. So, Japanese at 28%, Thai at 11% of all restaurants, right, Asian restaurants. Population wise, Japanese population share 7%, and Thai is less than three. So, a lot of over-indexing there so-. Marcus Johnson:. Wow. Oscar Orozco:.

TSMC has committed to building various chip factories in the US, Japan, and Europe, on top of investing TWD 1.86 trillion ($60.4 billion) in a new Taiwanese factory. TSMC is applying for subsidies from the US Chips Act, but its efforts could be confounded by the proviso that firms taking US funds won鈥檛 expand their chip manufacturing in 鈥渃ountries of concern鈥� like China and Russia for 10 years.

South Korea is Google Play鈥檚 third-biggest market behind the US and Japan. One Store, which was founded in June 2016, belongs to a conglomerate of South Korea鈥檚 three telecom providers鈥擲K Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus鈥攁nd internet provider Naver.

In Asia-Pacific, Japan and New Zealand have reached similar agreements with the European Commission. Tighter data control requirements led to major changes in ad buying behaviors. The ad industry鈥攑articularly the digital ad sector鈥攈as been affected by GDPR more than almost any other. Ad targeting drove the sharing and resharing of consumer data in ways that rode roughshod over privacy rights.

So the color white as another example tends to have positive connotations around the world, but in Japan, you might know this, anyone know what it's linked with in Japan? No? Death, apparently. It's usually black, right, but in Japan death, so maybe you don't have a white Buy button in Japan is the story there. Anyway, let's get onto the topic at hand.

In Japan, for example, Amazon Prime was the leading SVOD service used by more than three-quarters (77.5%) of respondents ages 13 to 69 in 2022, but Netflix held a majority of the revenue share in the country, according to GEM Partners. Challenges. The lack of clarity around password-sharing is making subscribers nervous.

Thirty-eight percent of patients with chronic conditions in the US, UK, China, Germany, and Japan do not use their doctor as a default source for medical advice, per the Hall & Partners/Think Next survey. They鈥檙e more likely to seek information from social media and influencers. Doctors should consider building their social media presence.

This is what I said last time, but just to set the table, karaoke comes from the word and also the thinking from Japan. But the word comes from the Japanese language kara, which means empty, and okie, which means short for orchestra, so empty orchestra.

It's kind of similar to Japan in that respect. Those are countries that just haven't so wholeheartedly embraced those activities and that will be very much why some of them are coming up as laggards. Paul Briggs:. Yeah, it's interesting to look at, if you look at the Asian regions, there are some distinctions there that I wanted to call out.

The Japanese telecoms firm KDDI has made a 楼500 billion bid to take physical retailer, Lawson, private. KDDI sees an opportunity to integrate its digital capabilities with the convenience store's 15,000 sites, to provide logistics bases to support online shopping services to the country's aging population. Good move, Man-Chung? Man-Chung Cheung:.

A technical error flooded PS5 home screens with outdated ads, sparking frustration. Sony's response addressed the issue, but concerns about in-game ads remain.