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Vol.004 A Freelancer's Health Is Business Risk Management: Why Spending on Health Costs Less in the End

Vol.004 A Freelancer's Health Is Business Risk ...

'Taking time off is also a business strategy.' Why does health become a matter of business risk management for someone working alone? We explore the question through fifteen years of...

Vol.004 A Freelancer's Health Is Business Risk ...

'Taking time off is also a business strategy.' Why does health become a matter of business risk management for someone working alone? We explore the question through fifteen years of...

The “One-Person Corporation” in the AI Era: Distribution, More Than Creation, Determines Wealth

The “One-Person Corporation” in the AI Era: Dis...

In an AI era where development has become a commodity, the ability to deliver matters more to wealth than the ability to create. Through Japanese and international examples generating tens...

The “One-Person Corporation” in the AI Era: Dis...

In an AI era where development has become a commodity, the ability to deliver matters more to wealth than the ability to create. Through Japanese and international examples generating tens...

Where You Work Changes What You Keep: Strategic Location for Companies and Freelancers

Where You Work Changes What You Keep: Strategic...

National taxes are uniform across Japan, but local taxes, National Health Insurance premiums, and special-zone programs create clear regional differences in the effective burden. This article examines location strategies for...

Where You Work Changes What You Keep: Strategic...

National taxes are uniform across Japan, but local taxes, National Health Insurance premiums, and special-zone programs create clear regional differences in the effective burden. This article examines location strategies for...

Beyond 670,000 Births: A Society Where Workers Disappear—Can AI and Automation Catch Up?

Beyond 670,000 Births: A Society Where Workers ...

Japan recorded 670,000 births in 2025. The falling birthrate will eventually return as a severe worker shortage. Drawing on the latest official data, this article explains the reality of labor-supply...

Beyond 670,000 Births: A Society Where Workers ...

Japan recorded 670,000 births in 2025. The falling birthrate will eventually return as a severe worker shortage. Drawing on the latest official data, this article explains the reality of labor-supply...

Why Bill Gates Reads One Book a Week: A Way of Growing Knowledge into a Single Tree

Why Bill Gates Reads One Book a Week: A Way of ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is known as a reader of about 50 books a year. Notes in the margins, a memory method that connects knowledge into one tree, and a...

Why Bill Gates Reads One Book a Week: A Way of ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is known as a reader of about 50 books a year. Notes in the margins, a memory method that connects knowledge into one tree, and a...

Why Did the “God of Management” Pray Each Morning to the “Source of the Universe”? Kōnosuke Matsushita’s Technology and Spirit in the AI Era

Why Did the “God of Management” Pray Each Morni...

Why did the rationalist who invented the twin socket pray each morning to the “Source of the Universe”? Kōnosuke Matsushita integrated that apparent contradiction into the foundation of management. This...

Why Did the “God of Management” Pray Each Morni...

Why did the rationalist who invented the twin socket pray each morning to the “Source of the Universe”? Kōnosuke Matsushita integrated that apparent contradiction into the foundation of management. This...