Business Lesson 7 of 7: How to Get Started Today

This is the final lesson, part 7 of a 7 part series about how to start your own bar, restaurant, or nightclub business in Japan.

Lesson7 of 7: Bar, Restaurant, Nightclub – How to Get Started Today!

Opening a business in Japan can be hard work, but if you follow the laws of the land and do your homework, it can be a very rewarding and fruitful experience.

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Business Lesson 6 of 7: Five Secrets to Growth

This is a part 6 of a 7 part series about how to start your own bar, restaurant, or nightclub business in Japan.

Lesson 6 of 7: Bar, Restaurant, Nightclub – Five Secrets to Growing your Japanese business

During Lesson 6, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Do Your Homework
  • Pay Attention to the Details
  • Be Realistic in Projections
  • Hire Carefully
  • Care About Your Product

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Business Lesson 5 of 7: Potential Problems and Solutions

This is a part 5 of a 7 part series about how to start your own bar, restaurant, or nightclub business in Japan.

Lesson 5 of 7: Bar, Restaurant, Nightclub – Potential Problems and Solutions

During Lesson 5, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Inadequate or Inappropriate Funding
  • High Competition
  • Knowing the Laws to Follow
  • Failed Inspections

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Business Lesson 4 of 7: Opening Successfully and Finding Your First Customers

This is a part 4 of a 7 part series about how to start your own bar, restaurant, or nightclub business in Japan.

Lesson 4 of 7: Bar, Restaurant, Nightclub – Opening Successfully and Finding Your First Customers

During Lesson 4, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Write a Press Release
  • “Friends and Family”
  • “Soft Opening”
  • “Grand Opening”
  • Create a Website and Subscriber Newsletter
  • Research Additional Marketing Strategies

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Business Lesson 3 of 7: Sample Business Plan

This is a part 3 of a 7 part series about how to start your own bar, restaurant, or nightclub business in Japan.

Lesson 3 of 7: Bar, Restaurant, Nightclub – Sample Business Plan

During Lesson 3, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Importance of a Business Plan
  • Finding Resources to Help Build Your Business Plan
  • Sample Restaurant Business Plan Outline
  • Importance of a Business Plan

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Business Lesson 2 of 7: Business Legal Requirements

This is a part 2 of a 7 part series about how to start your own bar, restaurant, or nightclub business in Japan.

Lesson 2 of 7: Bar, Restaurant, Nightclub – Business Legal Requirements

During Lesson 2, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Notification to the Public Health Center
  • Notification to the Fire Department
  • Notification to Tax Office
  • Notification to Labor Standards Supervision Office and Hello Work
  • Special Requirements for Bars/Night Clubs

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Business Lesson 1 of 7: How to set up a Bar, Restaurant, or Nightclub

Welcome to the beginning of a 7 part series about how to start your own bar, restaurant, or nightclub business in Japan.

Lesson 1 of 7: Introduction and First Steps (How to set up a Bar, Restaurant, or Nightclub)

Congratulations on taking the first steps toward opening a business in Japan!

During this course, we will introduce you to the steps you must take to open a restaurant, bar, or combination restaurant/bar in Japan. (Throughout this course, for simplicity’s sake we will refer to these combinations as simply a “restaurant”.) And here you can find a list of good books about running a business in japan.

We will provide you with access to legal documents you must complete and information about how to file them, as well as give you some industry-specific information and tips on how to open and run your new business successfully.

Basic Syllabus
Each lesson in this course will cover a different topic area for opening a successful restaurant, bar, or nightclub in Japan.

At the end of each lesson, we will list specific tasks for you to complete to help you succeed at each stage of your business development. If you complete each step thoughtfully and carefully, you will be well on your way to conducting a successful business in Japan.

Now on with Lesson 1:

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Things Japanese people say to foreigners

Here’s a funny video about what some Japanese people say to foreigners (gaijin). Maybe it’s only funny for foreigners living in Japan that have experienced this, but I felt it’s worth a share! The comments I hear the most are about chopsticks.

  • Can you use chopsticks?
  • Wow, you can use chopsticks?
  • Where did you learn to use chopsticks?

And the second most popular phrase or comment is about teaching English.

  • Are you an English teacher?
  • Can you teach me English?

If you get asked silly questions, you can easily reply in Japanese by learning some easy Japanese.

Japan Designs Compared to Western Designs

What are the differences between the Japan graphic design and western graphic design? Individuals who are creating blog websites, for entertainment, information, and promoting are becoming prevalent. Website designers in London and the US have grown much since the demand of websites for personal and business purposes. Websites blogs are being explored by individuals for personal and business purposes. Most websites have useful links with valuable information.

Which designs are more creative of the Japan and Western? The only way to find that out is to have lived in on and explored the other. That includes its culture and the likes. What makes designs creative is what it has to offer on the site. If there is a website that doesn’t have much information to offer, most likely the website will not attract visitors. One thing to consider is to look at small simple things like a menu at a restaurant. In Japan it’s normal for every menu to have a photo of the item next to the text. That’s something the western world often lacks.

Using a specific keyword for example, like Japan or Western can include pages and pages of website listings. You may click a blog website designed for personal use and realize that there is useful information. What ever you need to know about the Japanese culture and Japan it is on the website. There are web designers in London who have created Japan and Western designs website.

The blog websites can be designed for entertainment, personal, and business. Most blog website regardless of type, have valuable links to provide information or advertise services and products. The websites can be a social media for people to share experiences and real live stories of any topic. Visitors can find websites from various links to provide information. There are links for everything imaginable on some blog websites.

Links are important when it comes to attracting visitors. Many London web designers are well trained in SEO. People who have blog websites eventually discover that the more links, the likelihood or more traffic. There are all kinds of blog designers in Japan and the Western parts of the world. A Westerner can travel to Japan to work with a Japanese company and turn a website into a tool of power creating a social media of people sharing ideas, recipes, music, and advertising, and so on.

A power blog website needs a creative design. Regardless of Japanese or Western designs, the designs need to be powerful and make a statement. A web designer can creatively design a particular blog website base upon the topics, such as traveling. An individual may have traveled to Japan and discovered that he wanted to create a blog website for his personal use and it turned into magic. Some of the best designers over the world can create powerhouse designs. There are free and paid blog themes available these days, but it’s the unique designs that stand out the most.

Attack of the Androids!

Android robots like these freak me out. It’s a big step into the future of robotics, but they are starting to look like more and more real. These have cameras installed in their retinas so they can look at people walking by. They move a little (mostly or all in the face?), they talk, and who knows what the next step will be. Just be prepared for the future android invasion!

Mix these guys with the Honda Asimo robot and you’ve got some crazy functionality! (Or a step towards a real Terminator?)

And check out this crazy stuff… you can kiss a TV and the image reacts to you.

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