Podcast Episodes

An Inside Look at Japan’s Curious Coding Bootcamps

Season 1 Episode 136

The developed world is facing a severe programmer shortage. Around the world, coding boot camps have stepped into this gap to teach newcomers basic p…

7 years, 2 months ago

Is There (Finally) a Practical Way for Foreigners to Live in Japan?

Season 1 Episode 135

For decades, Japan has been struggling with the economic need to attract more foreign residents to the country and the general social reluctance to d…

7 years, 2 months ago

DJ Selects: Japan’s Airbnb for Satellites – InfoStellar

Season 1

The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the world, launch vehicle and spacecraft technology has…

7 years, 3 months ago

Can capitalism ever allow us a good night’s sleep?

There is something odd about the way we treat sleep.  We understand that it is essential for good health, but we are almost ashamed when we admit …

7 years, 3 months ago

The Secret to Making E-Payments Work in Japan

Season 1 Episode 133

Whenever you hear someone claim that the Japanese will never do something for unspecified "cultural reasons", you know there is a fortune to be made.…

7 years, 4 months ago

How a Rumor Can Destroy Your Business in Japan

Japanese thoughts on risk are changing, but they are changing slowly. Many people still consider failure to be a permanent condition, and that makes…

7 years, 5 months ago

What This 330-Year-Old Company is Learning from Startups

Season 1 Episode 131

The conventional wisdom is that traditional Japanese companies can't innovate. And traditionally, that's been true.  Hosoo, however, might be carryi…

7 years, 5 months ago

Disrupting Japan Trailer

Season 1

Welcome to Disrupting Japan, straight talk from Japan’s most successful entrepreneurs. I’m Tim Romero and thanks for joining me. Twice a month, you…

7 years, 5 months ago

Live & Unleashed – How to Run a Startup as a Foreigner in Japan

Season 1 Episode 130

Disrupting Japan is four years old, so we decided to invite a few hundred movers and shakers from Tokyo’s startup community over to have few drinks a…

7 years, 5 months ago

How Dancing Satellites from Japan Will Clean Up Outer Space

Season 1 Episode 129

There are a lot of aerospace startups in Japan these days. We are seeing innovation in everything from component manufacturing to satellite constella…

7 years, 6 months ago