DoKomi “Bringing the feeling of Akihabara to Germany”
DoKomi began as a spontaneous idea of six friends. Today it has become Germany’s biggest anime and manga convention, with over 100,000 visitors and sales in the millions. Although one would have expected something different after Corona, ticket sales this year were already higher than ever before, even half a year in advance. J-BIG talked …
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Takeo Ischi “As a yodeling Japanese, I have always attracted a lot of attention.”
At the age of 15, Takeo Ischi, then known as Takeo Ishii, began yodeling in Japan. The hobby turned into a career that made him famous first in …
Olympus“The Japanese enthusiasm for soy sauce brought us to endoscopy”
The over 100-year-old Japanese-based company Olympus is still known by many primarily for its camera business. The fact that Olympus today is a successful medtech business and global …
Kumon “German parents have turned to our method because of the first PISA study”
Based on the original worksheet instruction idea by founder and mathematics teacher Toru Kumon, the Japanese private tutoring company became an international phenomenon in the 1970s, starting from …
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