News: CScout Japan on CNN Today

Michael Keferl shares his expertise on the latest in Japanese food trends.
CScout Japan Managing Director Michael Keferl was a guest on CNN Today with Kristie Lu Stout and Andrew Stevens to talk about some food trends in Japan. The focus was on our recent posts about character lunch accessories, “udon” pudding, and a new […]

Trend: Eco-fashion in Japan

CScout Japan share their expertise in print (again).
Our Japanese Trend scout Rebecca wrote CScout Japan’s latest piece for the March/April issue of popular magazine Japan Inc., with which the Tokyo office has an ongoing collaboration. This time they reported on eco-trends in fashion, though it’s safe to say that the “eco” factor had a […]

News: CScout Japan covered in Forbrukerteknologi

CScout Japan CEO Sven Kilian was featured again recently in the Norwegian technology magazine Forbrukerteknologi. It looks like a great piece, but we’ll have to make a point of brushing up on our Norwegian for the future.
Also included in the article are references to the Sega Homestar Pro home planetarium and the Sony Rolly.

News: VDZ Online Publishers Asia Trend Tour

From February 10 - 15, 2008, CScout conducted a Trend Tour in Seoul and Tokyo for VDZ, a German magazine publishers industry association. Executives of German media companies spent the week with visits, including: social networking virtual world, Cyworld; online citizen journalism innovator OhmyNews; Naver, Korea’s most visited web portal; Japan mobile giant KDDI’s […]

News: CScout Japan on CNN Business Traveler with Richard Quest

Last month, CScout Japan was featured on CNN’s Business Traveler, a show that highlights the globe trotting exploits of one Richard Quest, CNN’s resident business guru.
We spent the afternoon in Akihabara, checking out new gadgets and technology, and generally giving an impression of what’s out and what’s to come in the world of Japanese mobile […]

News: AOTS and CScout - “Made in Japan”

CScout’s collaboration with the G4 Network’s Attack of the Show began recently and will be an ongoing project about twice a month.
Check out our first foray on AOTS. This resulted in a regular show now titled “Made in Japan”.

The first “Made in Japan” show featured:
- Canned ramen
- Portable disposable toilet
- CAM-007 camcorder
- Bone conduction
- […]

News: CScout China - Looking ahead to 2008

Blink and you’ll miss it - these are exciting times in the world’s most populous nation. As China prepares to enter its long-awaited Olympic year, the Chinese economy continues its whirlwind development and Chinese society continues to embrace newfound wealth, individuality and creativity.
With over 500 million mobile phone users, 150 million PC users, 100 million […]

News: CScout Incorporates Tokyo office

Having already represented CScout since 2002, CScout Japan incorporated as a Japanese kabushiki gaisha (Co. Ltd.) in 2007, marking a new push to provide even better information, reports, and tours on Japan’s deep and fascinating market.
Headed by CEO Sven Kilian and Director Michael Keferl, CScout Japan Co. Ltd. is expanding both in size and in […]

Event: The Future Tour - Experience the Trends at Ars Electronica

TheFutureTour is an exclusive Workshop-Format, wherein over the course of one day, the most important trends from the week long ARS Electronica Festival will be presented in business relevant terms.
Thus TheFutureTours becomes a seismograph, measuring and recognizing interesting economic developments early on. The exclusive information and insights that will be presented are […]

News: CScout’s “Tokyo Summerland Pool” Video goes Viral

Last week our industrious trend scouts in the CScout Japan office posted a great video of the Tokyo Summerland pool: “Tokyo Summerland wave pool manages to fit in some water”
The video made it to Boing Boing and then going viral causing us to have to change our hosts in Japan.
Check it out:
“It’s summertime here […]