Kobe We had been having trouble connecting with some of the planners and professors in our own version of the Sophia Coppola movie, ‘Lost in Translation,’ so we left from Shinkobe (the Kobe subway train station) in plenty of time. Professor Ohnishi had told us to meet his colleague Ikuo Kobayashi, the President of CO–PLAN …
Category: International
Kobe’s Recovery
Kobe, Japan Kobe is a port city below Osaka about 3 hours on the bullet train from Tokyo. From the edge of the hills looking down as your eyes travel towards the water, it is really a very pretty town. It is hard to believe today that almost 12 years ago on January 17, 1995 …
Wal-Mart and Bharti on the India Sneak
San Francisco Wal-Mart sales are slipping. It’s stock in on a skid. Expansion plans have been rolled back in the US. This year the company closed shop in Germany and Korea. There’s no smiley face on this season for Wal-Mart. I should have known when they saw Reliance grabbing their business model and threatening to run …