Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market

by Tim Clark, Carl Kay

Saying Yes to Japan examines the history and future of Japan's service sector, exposing structural shortcomings and offering innovative ways to take advantage of the trillion dollar hole in the nation's domestic economy. Revealing analyses of the real estate, finance, health care, and information technology industries are coupled with up-close profiles of entrepreneurs from around the world who successfully use their "outsider" perspectives to answer surprisingly underserved customer needs.

Genres: Business, Japan

175 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

Dr. Timothy Clark is an entrepreneur, NEXT-certified entrepreneurship trainer, teacher, and author who leads the global personal business model movement. After selling his startup to a NASDAQ-listed entity in a multi-million-dollar transaction, Tim completed doctoral research in international business model portability and authored or edited five books on entrepreneurship, business models, and personal development, including the international bestsellers Business Model You and Business Model Generation, which together have sold more than a million copies in 30 languages.

Previously Tim served as the author of Japan Entrepreneur Report and Japan Internet Report, as a Senior Fellow for Tokyo-based venture-capital firm Sunbridge, and as a professor of business at the University of Tsukuba.

Reviews

[Chris]

I wish I had read this book sooner. I bought it two years ago, and it sat on my shelf in the 'to read' pile for too long.