Executives from four leading Japanese office technology OEMs outline their company’s initiatives for 2023 and beyond, including a focus on new technologies, the environment and sustainability, and employee well being.
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IGAS2022 (International Graphic Arts Show 2022), an exhibition held every four years in Tokyo for the printing equipment industry, was held from November 24–28 in the East Building of Tokyo Big Sight…
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Japanese Headlines: Toshiba TEC Expands Color MFP Applications with Specialty Papers
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboThe company ushers in the new wave of POP production. Toshiba TEC, which develops, manufactures, and sells Toshiba-branded e-STUDIO color MFPs, has…
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Japanese Headlines: Otsuka Shokai Celebrates 60th Anniversary
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboDiversification has been key to Japan’s largest independent dealer’s growth. Above: Otsuka Shokai President Yuji Otsuka greets visitors at the company’s 60th…
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Japanese Headlines: JBMIA Helping Members in COVID Aftermath
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboJoint delivery eases logistical burdens. In the North American market where you do business, how do you deliver MFPs ordered by customers?…
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Toshiba TEC accelerates its policy of “Becoming a Global Top Solution Partner for a Vendor.” Above Hironobu Nishikori Toshiba TEC President Hironobu…
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Japanese Headlines: What the Ricoh-Cybozu Alliance Means to the U.S. Market
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboRicoh-branded Kintone platform to launch in 2022. Above: Ricoh President Yamashita (left) and Cybozu President Aono On April 27, Ricoh, which aims…
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President and CEO Toshimitsu Taiko addresses the company’s most pressing issues. Konica Minolta’s new president, Toshimitsu Taiko, held a media round-table conference…
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Japanese Headlines: Ricoh 20th Mid-Term Management Plan Update
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboThe company also announced its medium and long-term expectations. Ricoh executives, including President Yoshinori Yamashita, held a briefing for analysts on March…
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Financial results for the third quarter (Q3) of FY2021 (October-December 2021) for Epson, whose main business is inkjet printers, were as expected. Revenue increased by 296.1 billion…
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To ring in 2022, top executives from four MFP OEMs revealed their New Year’s resolutions focused on the Japanese market. The days of concentrating solely on MFPs and printers…
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Japanese Headlines: Looking Back and Looking Forward
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboDemand for MFPs and printers have risen, but supply chain disruptions continue to impact OEMs’ financial projections. Fiscal result announcements by OEMs…
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Japanese Headlines: Brother Announces New Group Vision
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboOn October 6, 2021, Brother Industries President Ichiro Sasaki announced the Brother Group Vision “At Your Side 2030” for the fiscal years from 2022 through 2030. The vision was created…
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Japanese Headlines: Most Requested IT Tools in Japan
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboThough office demand for MFPs and printers is declining, demand for IT tools and services that digitize office workflows to make them more efficient…
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COVID-19 is rapidly promoting telework as the predominant work style. Along with this, there is a demand for digital transformation (DX) within the workplace. The imaging industry…
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Japanese Headlines: COVID-19 Protection Products Proliferate
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboCOVID-19 has accelerated the shift to an office-agnostic work style, resulting in fewer MFPs, printers, and prints in the office and reduced profits for dealers…
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Sustainability
Japanese Headlines: Epson and Ricoh Raise Renewable Energy Utilization Targets
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboThe SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), unanimously adopted by the member states at the United Nations Summit in September 2015, are international goals for a sustainable…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought rapid changes to companies’ work styles, which raises questions about the ideal set up for employees who must work onsite. Those changes…
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Japanese Headlines: Post Pandemic Technological Advancement
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboAs we enter 2021, executives from the Japanese MFP industry group, JBMIA, and OEMs have stated their initiatives in response to the market changes…
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Japanese Headlines: Jbmia Holds 60th Anniversary Ceremony
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboThe Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association (JBMIA) held its 60th Anniversary Ceremony in Tokyo on November 13, 2020. (JBMIA is a Japanese…
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Japanese Headlines | Less Power Consumption Spurs a Sales Surge for Epson Sales Inkjet MFPs
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboEpson Sales is finding growing interest for its inkjet MFPs in Japan thanks in part to a sales model designed to increase interest…
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The impact of COVID-19 in Japan was greatest from April to May, when the emergency declaration was issued by the Japanese government, causing the economy to stagnate…
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The impact of COVID-19 was evident in the recently released financial statements by Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Ricoh, and Toshiba Tec whose fiscal years ended on March…
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At a business briefing for analysts and press, held by Seiko Epson Corporation in early May, Chairman Minoru Usui and President Yasunori Ogawa presented…
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Japanese Headlines: the Impact of COVID-19 on Japan and the Imaging Industry
by Tetsuo Kuboby Tetsuo KuboWith the rapid spread of infection in Europe and the United States, the coronavirus pandemic is driving major transformation in the imaging industry, and it…
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