Uchikura & Co Blog
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...
2026-03-15
Businesses Are Moving Away When businesses begin leaving a city or a state, it rarely happens overnight. At first, it is small signs. A company decides to open its next office somewhere else. Anoth...
2026-03-14
The Difference Between a Factory Suit and a Tailor Shop When people compare technology companies, they often assume that bigger automatically means better. But that is not always true. Sometimes th...
2026-03-14
A Store Full of Clothes — Does This Business Model Really Work? Every time I walk into a clothing store like GAP (and I am not picking on GAP specifically), I am always amazed at the number of clot...