Many restaurants are hurting because of COVID-19 pandemic. But companies like Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. which takes acre of Internet and other infrastructures have to work as usual. Since restaurants are closed, you need to order lunch from the restaurants. Many of the restaurants are not adjusting menu or pricin...

You cannot import cars from Japan easily unless the car is over 25 years old. There are companies in Japan specializing in exporting 25 and older Japanese cars into the US. In Japan, most cars are kept in god shape because of the Japanese regulations with a lot less mileage. You can often find cars with less than 50,0...

In many developed world, human cost is the most expensive items in any business. In the world of parking, at what point it is cost effective to hire parking attendant? In Japan, many of the open air parking were turned into machine controlled lots. When you park your car at any spot and a flat that urns up making car lock...

Shokken is a food voucher vending system that many small Japanese fast-food restaurants uses. The system is simple, you choose what you want to eat li...

Most of you do not know that your printer prints secret code to the printed paper. What? It is called "A Machine Identification Code" which prints date, time and printer serial number using tiny yellow dots almost invisible to your eyes. This is not something new. It has been going on since the beginning of printer to identify ...

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Here are things I do in the morning. (1) Wake Up (2) Brush Teeth (3) Take Shower (4) Check my Weight (5) Watch News (Usually NHK World) (6) Take my Blood Pressure (7) Check my Blood Sugar (8) Check my Temperature Then I come to work.

After one week of allowing people to work from home, I have found the biggest problem with it. If your job is doing the routine work like bookkeeping, almost all work can be done by teleworking. But anything that require management, supervision, training, customer interaction cannot be fully accomplished by teleworking. If y...

SSL, TLS and Security Lately there is a lot of talk going on around Internet Security. Much of the talk are about supporting TLS 1.2, but you are aske...

I had my brunch at Bellevue Hilton this morning. Relaxing Sunday. I am at office getting ready for a new week. I have added "Die Neue Seite" at the bottom of my email signature. I will explain what it means at my next newsletter. you can subscribe to my newsletter at http://www.uchikura.co