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“Closing a company or selling it is also considered something of a failure and shame in Japan, and this feeling goes back centuries. So these cultural issues also seem to encourage families to keep firms going,” he says. “Japanese society, and the economy, is not as flexible as the US, and so Japan does not generate big new firms so easily. The ten... See more

Deepening our dharma and healing our karma co-inform each other. Every gift has a shadow, every shadow has a gift – it’s helpful to explore them together.

Dharma involves your being , your doing , and your becoming .

Who and how are you being, moment to moment?

How connected are you to your own being, to your love, to the clarity of your principles and values, and how is that informing how you perceive and express in each situation?

What are you doing in your life and where is the motivation for that ... See more

Back in 2008, a Bank of Korea report found that of 5,586 companies older than 200 years in 41 countries, 56% of them were in Japan. In 2019, there were over 33,000 businesses in Japan over a century old, according to research firm Teikoku Data Bank. The oldest hotel in the world has been open since 705 in Yamanashi and confectioner Ichimonjiya Wasu... See more