Pernille Rudlin
@pernillerudlin
Insights on Japanese business in UK, Europe, EMEA. www.rudlinconsulting.com also www.japanintercultural.com Also occasional art, cats, Japanese acrobats #TOTP
Top 8% me. I knew OpenAI had trained on my and my American business partner @japanintercult.bsky.social writing, but it has led to some business so less annoyed than I was.
And right on cue, this has come up for sale, same date as the Monet above - 1873 - by Utagawa Sadahide, of Minamoto samurai visiting Kyoto in 1199
I change my header regularly with seasons. A Japanese originated habit, as are most of the images I choose. This is Claude Monet, the railway bridge at Argenteuil 1873 which I very much think was influenced by Japanese woodblock prints of bridges
It's not the elderly rioting though. I fear racism goes further down the generations than we might want to recognise. Farage knows his original supporters are dying off so trying to groom the next generation?
Slumming it with son as Mr P is in the King Billy with his bestie. Watching episode 1 season 2 of The Pitt and discovering the joy of Prawn Cocktail flavoured Pringles. 100% bank holiday vibes.
By coincidence, wandering around Ebisu today (ok a bit lost) where I used to live in the 1990s, I saw this restaurant which I was sure I recognised. Sure enough opened in 1989. V comforting as the changes at Shibuya had disoriented me hence a bit lost.
Japan's having a brilliant Winter Olympics. In terms of soft power - their athletes are just v cool. One even has dreadlocks. Parents are surfers etc. The events they are excelling in are gripping even for a total ignoramus like me - half pipe snow board or dual moguls www.xgames.com/wp-content/u...
Today in Niigata - calm charm and banishing calamity. And a great cup of coffee.
On various kinds of waste and the trauma of Japanese bin sorting. open.substack.com/pub/pernille...
Some thoughts on snow, food, shopping and the election in Japan
Made it through heavy snow to hotel in Niigata prefecture. View from my room below. Had a soak in an onsen. Now watching PM Takaichi being interviewed after confirmation her party will have 2/3 majority. Centrist alliance appears to have crashed + burned.
Obstructing a door is known as "door jizou" apparently - jizou - statues you often see in temples. And yes it turns out there's a manner poster for this, along with "don't be a salmon" - swimming upstream - getting on when people are trying to get off. 2/3
Saw this in the window of Tombland Books in Norwich. With illustrations but I'm guessing I'll be disappointed
Mannie has taken his seat for our Christmas Eve dinner. He has heard there is a gravlax starter. (I use my Danish ancestry as an excuse for 2 dinners)
Looking at the employment levels of Japanese companies in the UK relative to other European countries, it does seem from both our + Toyo Keizai data that the UK continues to have the largest number of employees in Europe, + that this has grown since 2016. But... 3/
Looking at the number of Japanese companies in the UK relative to other European countries, the UK was the only one showing a decline (-9%) from 2015 to 2024. The average increase for the other top 9 European hosts was 15%. Particularly notable was the Netherlands - nearly doubled. 2/
Some tasters for the report I am writing on how Japanese companies have fared in the UK since the 2016 Brexit referendum. First off, overall employment numbers - climbing steadily to 2018-9, then after actual Brexit, bumping along, decline during Covid, now seems to be picking up again, to 187,620.
You don't often see obituaries in the middle of an annual report, but this rather touching one for Julienne Viola appeared in Freed of London's. The British dance shoe company is now owned by Japanese company Onward.
The importance of accepting the possibility that a person can have plural identities and loyalties, from Nobel Prize winning Amartya Sen.
There are around 30,000 Japanese nationals who have permanent residency in the UK. Many of them are married to British people, have British children. The reason they have not taken on British citizenship is that this would mean giving up their Japanese nationality under Japanese law.
See also this book on how Danes go home at 4pm and still produce results
Actually there is a market for that kind of book in Japan. The attached is "Germany's amazing work habits" how Germans take 3 times more holiday than the Japanese with 1.5 times the output. Many of these kinds of books emphasise that "good enough" is good enough.