Uchikura & Co Blog
2025-12-31
The Uncomfortable Truth About Japan and Taiwan There is an uncomfortable truth that many Japanese people may not realize, or may prefer not to think about: the main deterrent against the Chinese Comm...
2025-12-30
Qustion: Can China Defeat Japan Even Without Help From Other Countries? Why China Could Not Successfully Invade Japan — Even Without Outside Help The idea of a Chinese invasion of Japan is often dis...
2025-12-30
Dreamersi Is Expanding: Introducing VPS Web Hosting for Business Websites For more than 25 years, Dreamersi has provided reliable web and email hosting for businesses operating in the United States...
2025-12-30
Lately I’ve noticed something interesting: more people are reading, sharing, and responding to what I write than ever before. Some seem to think I’m trying to be controversial. I’m not. I’m simply ex...
2025-12-30
Toyota’s KINTO: Why the Auto Industry Is Becoming a Subscription BusinessFor more than a century, the car business was built on one simple idea: sell a car once and move on. The manufacturer made mon...
2025-12-29
Why I Still Trust Japan as a Business Partner I have been doing business between Japan and the United States for nearly four decades. I have seen booms, bubbles, crashes, trade wars, and political cy...
2025-12-29
Japan’s Growing Unity—and Its Quiet Weak Point Japan is becoming more united under its new prime minister, and pressure from neighboring countries is strengthening that sense of national solidarity...
2025-12-28
I filled up my car today in North Bend, Washington. I usually buy gas at the cheapest places, including Costco, but even the Shell station in North Bend was fairly reasonable by Washington standards....
2025-12-27
Japan at a Crossroads: The Real Issues Beneath the Headlines From outside Japan, the country is often portrayed as calm, stable, and united. But inside Japan today, that image is increasingly disco...
2025-12-25
Not What They Expected For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has used anti-Japan sentiment as a political tool to divert public frustration away from its own failures and the contradictions of c...