In July, I gave a keynote speech at the 2009 annual conference of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) in Kyoto, Japan, that focused on the communications barrier facing computer security incident response professionals in their cross-cultural dealings with their Asian counterparts. This was the first and, thus far, only time I’ve [...]
Anyone who’s spent time in Japan — any at all — recognizes the importance of mobile phones in today’s Japanese lifestyle. Wherever you go, whether it be on the train, walking along the street or waiting for a bus, you’ll see people around you staring fixedly into their little folding window to the world, which [...]
I gave a keynote speech at the 2009 annual conference of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) in Kyoto, Japan, that talked about my observations of Japanese business operations, highlighting the differences that become barriers to communication. This morning, I had the privilege of seeing a write-up of the talk in IT [...]
The 2009 Annual Conference for FIRST is going to be held this year in Kyoto, Japan from 28 June-3 July. Owing to the fact that I live literally just down the road from Kyoto, I thought I would share some travel tips in a series of short articles that might help make arriving at and [...]
Well, there aren’t really any whales there, but the Osaka Kaiyukan Aquarium does have some really spectacular whale sharks in their enormous tanks for public display. I saw them this past weekend, when I spent the day with a group of other Japanese language students from the Osaka YMCA Gakuin on a field trip to [...]
Welcome to Kyoto What city hosts the headquarters of Nintendo and has the second largest train station in Japan? Why, that’d be Kyoto! I guess the more popular things for which people know Kyoto are the myriad of historically significant locations, including the 17 locations in and around Kyoto that have been designated as a [...]
