PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Search "askew" on Google

Oct

30

Try it, you will see.

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Kaiten Sushi (回転寿司)

Oct

30

When I visit japan, I eat at Kaiten Sushi at least once. I had sushi for lunch today. Each plate, regardless what is on it is 105 yen which is about $1.20. What a deal.

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I am on Macintosh!!!

Oct

29

My Skype Screen!!!

My Skype showed this message ... Nice.
But can't you tell I am no Macintosh?

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I saw this watch yesterday at Costco. It remind me if an incident few years ago. Mayumi went to China and met the graphics design company owned by an American. All the designers were Chinese and they seem to do a very good job.

We asked them to design a clock for http://www.clocklink.com as a sample. They came up with few good designs which we liked. So, we were getting ready to use them. Mayumi came to Japan and happen to walk in front of the watch store were she saw an exact same design. That was this Frank Muller watch.

It turned out Chinese designers did not design but just copied the existing designs. We learned quickly "Copyright" does not mean anything.

When we told the owner about this, he was not very happy ...

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Eel (Unagi) Teriyaki

Oct

29

Very traditional Japanese lunch (could be a dinner too). Very Oishii (good).

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Costco Japan

Oct

28

I went to Costco Amagasaki in Japan today. They are one of the success business stories by the US companies in Japan. Although the business concept is the same between the US and Japan, Costco did amazing amount of localization to fit Japanese market.

The total opposite is the US Auto Manufacturers in Japan. They are still selling left hand steering cars in Japan where people drove on the left side like UK.

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Box Lunch / Bento Box

Oct

27

You can buy variety of pre made lunch box at Japanese super market. Prices are great and they look great.

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How many different Win 8 are there?

Oct

27

How many different version are there?
4,5,6...

Let's see...

Windows RT, Enterprise, 8, 8 Pro and then there are regular version and professional version not to mention server version to come. re there 32 bit version as well? Oh, I almost forgot, there are standard package and upgrade package.

Come on, keep it simple.

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PC is a commodity

Oct

26

http://www.1saleaday.com

Whether there is a brand new OS or not, PC is just a commodity. On the day the new Windows 8 is announce, there is a sale for PCs with Windows 8. It is very sad but that is the reality.

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Big Windows 8 Release in Japan ...

Oct

26

Today at midnight, Windows 8 started selling in Japan. I went to Sofmap, one of the big computer stores chains in Japan. There was no line to purchase Windows 8. Not only that I saw almost nobody at the Windows 8 section.

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