Retail sales in Japan set to rebound in 2025. Retail sales in Japan sagged by 5.6% in 2023 to 2.5% in 2024. But growth is expected to rebound to 2.7% in 2025, reaching about $1.221 trillion. Similarly, Japan’s online shopping sector will experience a rejuvenation, with consumer optimism pushing ecommerce sales growth from 3.5% in 2024 to 5% in 2025.
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Kyoto in Japan was the most walkable non-European city, so right country, Danny-. Daniel Konstantinovic (03:07):. Thank you, thank you. Marcus Johnson (03:08):. On the list coming in 28th though, which is remarkable, Vancouver in Canada was the highest-ranked North American city in the overall list, at 53rd, which is low. Daniel Konstantinovic (03:22):. Wow. Yeah, that's-. Marcus Johnson (03:23):.
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The largest one in the world is Inazawa Grand Bowl in Inazawa City in Japan. 116 lanes. Oscar Orozco (02:36):. Whoa. Marcus Johnson (02:36):. Be furious if they popped you down on 114, right? Oscar Orozco (02:40):. Oh gosh. Sounds like a-. Zach Goldner (02:41):. As an American, I feel infuriated that someone has something bigger than us. Marcus Johnson (02:41):. They beat you.
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| Mar 7, 2025
In an era when digital video viewership, social media usage, and over-the-top subscriptions are at a near saturation point in much of the world, podcast listener growth is still looking pretty good in most markets. A majority of the countries we track will see high single-digit listener growth rates this year.
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| Nov 2, 2023
The US retail giant has opened up its third-party marketplace and invited sellers from China, Canada, Japan, the UK, and other countries to join. It now offers around 400 million SKUs from marketplace sellers—up from about 75 million pre-pandemic.
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| Jun 6, 2023
Okay, we are in Japan first, where just 37% of people listen to radio. That's the lowest proportion of all 49 countries that were tracked. The first radio broadcast in Japan happened on March the 22nd, 1925. Which of the following statements is false?
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| Oct 28, 2024
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.
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| Oct 30, 2023
It is Japanese inspired. It is really about sustainability. They have cafes, they have a subscription service, they have different sort of health and wellness offerings I guess maybe depending on the cafe you go to. And they also sell snacks. And I saw it, I went in, it's very inviting and they're like, "Do you want to join the program?" And I was like, "Sure, how do I do that?"
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| Feb 14, 2023
Let's compare a couple of markets, let's say Japan and Indonesia. So, we are looking at a couple of factors, like demographics. For example, in Japan, those in the population that are under 15, the ratio is 11.6%. Versus in Indonesia, that ratio is actually around a quarter, 25%. So, there's a huge difference there in terms of younger portion of the population.
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| Sep 25, 2023
Meanwhile in China and Japan, tipping is perceived as offensive. So be careful with misplaced generosity there if you don't want a rebuke. So how close do we get to 20% the rest of the group here? I admit I don't do 20%. Carina Perkins:. I'm a 10-percenter, I admit. Bill Fisher:. Yeah. Paul? Paul Briggs:.
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| Jun 23, 2023
We have all these terms when you're TV and OTT and so on because that affects how the advertising is bought and distributed. So TV can mean linear or it can mean streaming, it's just completely different. But to a consumer, no consumer is saying, I'm going to watch OTT or I'm going to fire up my linear TV and watch a cable network, no one says that.
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