Name: Japanology Plus - Season 3 Episode 20 Shinise: Long-Established Businesses
Genre: Documentary, Talk
Released: 01 Jan 1970
Rating: 7.80
Cast: Peter Barakan, Emma Howard

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Japanology Plus - Season 3 Episode 20 Shinise: Long-Established Businesses

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Business. It’s a dog-eat-dog world. And nowhere is that more true than in Tokyo’s uptown Shibuya neighborhood, with its high rents and discerning customers. For those who work in the area, the rise and fall of new businesses is part of the fabric of everyday life. Yet the average lifespan of a business in Japan is considerably longer than in most countries: roughly 30 years compared to 18 or so in the US. Contributing to this statistic is Japan’s abundance of long-established businesses. So many of these companies exist that there is a special word for them: shinise. Japan has around 26 thousand companies with a century or more of history. Of these, more than a thousand have passed the bicentenary mark, and a handful have battled through for a staggering thousand years or longer. What are the secrets of Japan's many centuries-old firms? Peter Barakan meets with expert Yoshihiko Takubo, while Matt Alt visits Nihonbashi, the old heart of Tokyo, guided by shinise expert Haruki Kawasaki.

Year: 2024

Genre: Documentary, Talk

Country: Japan

Studio: NHK WORLD-JAPAN

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Cast: Peter Barakan, Emma Howard

Crew: Tetra Tanizaki (Theme Song Performance), rocomoon (Theme Song Performance)

First Air Date: Apr 03, 2014

Last Air date: Nov 21, 2024

Season: 11 Season

Episode: 323 Episode

Runtime: 28 minutes

IMDb: 7.80/10 by 4.00 users

Popularity: 64.221

Language: English, Japanese

Keyword : japan, way of life, arts and culture, japanese folklore, arts and crafts, japanese history, japanese tradition, japanese culture, change vs tradition, japanese society

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