by yk_service | Oct 15, 2020 | Tokyo
When thinking about a country, one’s mind tends to go straight to its largest cities: the metropolises of Tokyo, London, Seoul and Shanghai. And rightly so, since they tend to be the primary drivers of a nation’s economic growth: London, for example, generates about...
by yk_service | Jul 14, 2020 | Shanghai
In the West, social media influencers are on the wane. Industry surveys show decreasing levels of consumer faith in influencers in both the US and UK. Brands are once more taking centre-stage, and are speaking to these newly-cynical consumers directly, rather than via...
by yk_service | May 13, 2020 | Berlin
The US company Crayola’s product range essentially consists of tools designed to help creativity: crayons, chalk and artists’ supplies. Perhaps that is why its former CEO Rich Gurin hit the mark with his claim that “business needs what the arts...
by yk_service | Apr 21, 2020 | Shanghai
Covid-19 has swiftly turned ‘social distancing’ into the phrase for us all to live by. And even when the global pandemic has been fully understood and controlled, it will to some degree have changed our attitudes to what normal contact should look like. We can see...
by yk_service | Apr 7, 2020 | Tokyo
Getting Tokyo in shape for the Olympics may have become less urgent with the delay to 2021, but Shibuya will continue to rejuvenate at breakneck speed. A flurry of recent developments is all part of the effort to safeguard its position as Japan’s top shopping...