Day 4 – April 3rd
Pack it now! Saturday morning started by getting ready to leave Tokyo and jumping into an Oxford alumni reception, Tokyo Chapter. The party was held at the very heart of Tokyo, gathering over 70 alumni members, current classes, and those admitted to the school in 2010. Few glasses of champagne heated [...]

It is not only the extreme politeness that we’ve learned by now,but everyone has figured out how to keep it going through Japan trek: party never ends before 5am and still manage to sit in a company meeting from 10am.

LifeNet Company is an online life insurance venture co-founded by a 64-year-old industry expert Mr. Deguchi, [...]

Day 2 – April 1st
The clock points at 4:50am. After few hours of sleep, many of us went down to Tsukiji, the world’s largest fish market in Tokyo. We saw professionals bidding for tuna, often priced over $10k, and walked into a Sushi restaurant inside the market. How was it? I can’t tell. It’s the [...]

“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
Twelve hours passed after fellow trekkers dispersed, and I received an email from one of those who spent the astonishing eight days in Japan. “Between the fish market and the cherry blossoms, the trek could not have been timed any better. It was [...]

“If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society’s capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.”
- Konosuke Matsushita(1894 – 1989), Founder of Panasonic Corporation
What makes the [...]