The SOHO Center, an incubation facility, sits in the old Silk Center building overlooking Yamashita Park and Yokohama Harbor. The country is holding its breath for the birth of Japan's first virtual bank, scheduled to take place in 2000. The telecoms' battle over providing high-speed Internet access has heated up, with the main front now shifting to the local telecommunications market. You probably think of robots as machines that do some kind of useful work. AIBO the dog, however, does nothing of the kind.
Many women have a balancing act to perform-kids, work.
The Internet is actually helping to level the playing field in many aspects for women. The decline in the rate of entrepreneurial startups in Japan has led to much weeping and gnashing of teeth in the media on how Japan is falling behind in the entrepreneurial race, especially versus the U.S. Opinions on the perceived causes of this are many-deficiencies in the educational system, societal constraints, lack of entrepreneurial spirit among Japanese, unfavorable banking practices, overly restrictive government regulations, a lack of funding, and so on. Statistics Internet malls. All Rights Reserved.