Uchikura & Co Blog
2026-03-19
The Security of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s Nuclear Issue Cannot Be Separated For Japan, the security of the Strait of Hormuz is critically important to both its economy and daily life. Japan r...
2026-03-19
Why PSPINC Is Giving Away a Tool We Have Used for 20+ Years At PSPINC, we do not wait for customers to tell us something is broken. If a website stops responding, if an email server slows down, o...
2026-03-19
38 Years Without a Fare Increase — What That Really Means On March 14, 2026, Japan Railways (JR) raised its fares by 7%.At first glance, 7% may not sound like a big deal. But what caught my attenti...
2026-03-19
Japan’s EC-2: A New Era in Electronic Warfare Japan recently marked an important milestone with the first flight of its new stand-off jammer electronic warfare aircraft, the EC-2. Based on the Kawa...
2026-03-18
Why LINE Matters More Than SMS in Japan When American companies think about customer communication, they usually think of email and SMS. In Japan, that approach does not work. Japan runs on LINE....
2026-03-18
Nothing Changes If You Do Nothing "If you do nothing, nothing changes. But even if you do something, it doesn’t guarantee improvement. That’s why you need to start when you still have some leeway.” ...
2026-03-17
A Story About Quality — And How We Define It I once heard an interesting story. A U.S. manufacturer placed an order with a Japanese company for 100,000 screws. Along with the order, they added a ...
2026-03-17
Coffee, Conversations, and Connections — A New Beginning at PSPINC This morning, we hosted a Coffee Meetup Networking meeting at PSPINC, and I would like to sincerely thank everyone who took the ti...
2026-03-16
Honesty in Japanese Food Packaging One thing that often surprises people who visit Japan is how strict the country is about food packaging. In many places around the world, marketing departments tr...
2026-03-16
SiteMonster — 20 Years of PSPINC Monitoring Technology, Now Free In January 2003, PSPINC developed an internal monitoring tool called SiteMonster. At the time, we needed a reliable way to continuousl...