Pernille Rudlin
@pernillerudlin.bsky.social
Insights on Japanese business in UK, Europe, EMEA.
www.rudlinconsulting.com also www.japanintercultural.com
Also occasional art, cats, Japanese acrobats #TOTP
www.rudlinconsulting.com also www.japanintercultural.com
Also occasional art, cats, Japanese acrobats #TOTP
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.
October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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.
September 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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.
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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
September 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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.
September 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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.
Just had one of those moments, looking up trends in US$ vs GBP£ wondering what on earth happened in Sep 2022 and then I remembered.
August 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Just had one of those moments, looking up trends in US$ vs GBP£ wondering what on earth happened in Sep 2022 and then I remembered.
Nicked from the other place for new series of #FakeorFortune
July 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Nicked from the other place for new series of #FakeorFortune
There is a cat in there somewhere
July 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There is a cat in there somewhere
A week to go until I speak at the British Music Hall Society in London about Chiyokichi, a performer who left Japan as a 10 year old child in 1867 to tour the world with the Great Dragon Troupe. Tickets available (to all) below www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/kin...
July 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A week to go until I speak at the British Music Hall Society in London about Chiyokichi, a performer who left Japan as a 10 year old child in 1867 to tour the world with the Great Dragon Troupe. Tickets available (to all) below www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/kin...
I bought this in 1991 from an artist who'd set up a stall on the Wenceslas bridge. I had the most extraordinary business trip there thanks to my Japanese boss, scoping out the possibility of exporting Honda bikes 1/
July 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I bought this in 1991 from an artist who'd set up a stall on the Wenceslas bridge. I had the most extraordinary business trip there thanks to my Japanese boss, scoping out the possibility of exporting Honda bikes 1/
It will soon be the fifth anniversary of Eat Out to Help Out. Seems like a lifetime ago.
July 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It will soon be the fifth anniversary of Eat Out to Help Out. Seems like a lifetime ago.
I'm doing another Japanese acrobat talk (British Music Hall Society July 22nd in London) - this time on Tamamoto Chiyokichi (1856-1925), rope + sword walker. He claimed to have come to Britain when he was 10 + to have fought in the Zulu war. www.ticketsource.co.uk/britishmusic...
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm doing another Japanese acrobat talk (British Music Hall Society July 22nd in London) - this time on Tamamoto Chiyokichi (1856-1925), rope + sword walker. He claimed to have come to Britain when he was 10 + to have fought in the Zulu war. www.ticketsource.co.uk/britishmusic...
Well at least one of them writes a column for Private Eye. 😉
May 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well at least one of them writes a column for Private Eye. 😉
I'm running a live online seminar on successful business trips to Japan - a week today and also May 7th, covering different time zones. More details here www.tickettailor.com/events/rudli...
April 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I'm running a live online seminar on successful business trips to Japan - a week today and also May 7th, covering different time zones. More details here www.tickettailor.com/events/rudli...
Took a photo of it and realised it was just next to the new @edwyncollins.bsky.social CD I just bought in anticipation of going to his concert in Norwich this October. Maybe it should be called the Edwyn Collins.
March 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Took a photo of it and realised it was just next to the new @edwyncollins.bsky.social CD I just bought in anticipation of going to his concert in Norwich this October. Maybe it should be called the Edwyn Collins.
Seems like @stephenkb.bsky.social having similar thoughts. Personally I'd prefer to buy a security and defence bond than pay a levy. I wonder which would raise more. If the bare minimum is £5bn more a year, that's £100 per adult.
February 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Seems like @stephenkb.bsky.social having similar thoughts. Personally I'd prefer to buy a security and defence bond than pay a levy. I wonder which would raise more. If the bare minimum is £5bn more a year, that's £100 per adult.
Probably not helped by the fact that I am currently reading this terrific book.
February 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Probably not helped by the fact that I am currently reading this terrific book.
How I think I look when teaching (training)/ how I actually look
February 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
How I think I look when teaching (training)/ how I actually look
Yet again the Netherlands proves to be the Brexit benefitter as far as Japanese corporates are concerned. The number of Japanese nationals resident in the Netherlands ⬆️ 53% 2014-2024, but ⬇️ 4.7% in the UK - mostly due to a 20% drop in corporate expat visa holders it seems.
tinyurl.com/5n7k8dba
tinyurl.com/5n7k8dba
February 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Yet again the Netherlands proves to be the Brexit benefitter as far as Japanese corporates are concerned. The number of Japanese nationals resident in the Netherlands ⬆️ 53% 2014-2024, but ⬇️ 4.7% in the UK - mostly due to a 20% drop in corporate expat visa holders it seems.
tinyurl.com/5n7k8dba
tinyurl.com/5n7k8dba
There had been a decline in UK exports of financial services to Japan since 2019, but this picked up again in 2023.
January 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
There had been a decline in UK exports of financial services to Japan since 2019, but this picked up again in 2023.
We confirm what @ukandeu.bsky.social has been saying about the overall picture. Headcount in Japanese financial services sector in the UK has not fallen, but Japanese investment + assets has flowed out of UK + into Ireland Netherlands + Luxembourg. UK is still dominant as a global finance centre 2/2
January 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We confirm what @ukandeu.bsky.social has been saying about the overall picture. Headcount in Japanese financial services sector in the UK has not fallen, but Japanese investment + assets has flowed out of UK + into Ireland Netherlands + Luxembourg. UK is still dominant as a global finance centre 2/2
I did wonder if there's a subculture of over the top reviewers on Amazon when I read the reviews for these sink overflow trims, which cost £3.99 for 3 FFS. Reader, I bought them, and they do the job. But...
December 25, 2024 at 7:47 PM
I did wonder if there's a subculture of over the top reviewers on Amazon when I read the reviews for these sink overflow trims, which cost £3.99 for 3 FFS. Reader, I bought them, and they do the job. But...
In researching this topic, I came across the poster you can see here. It’s from the 1906 General Election, and as you can see it was issued by the Conservative Party. The alliance that they refer to was the 1902 Anglo-Japanese alliance.
December 2, 2024 at 1:48 PM
In researching this topic, I came across the poster you can see here. It’s from the 1906 General Election, and as you can see it was issued by the Conservative Party. The alliance that they refer to was the 1902 Anglo-Japanese alliance.
He's looking reproachfully at me because I have been scritching behind his ears affectionately calling him my fascist feline, populist pussycat and Trumpy tiger. He was being a vindictive ahole to his brother this morning. Clumps of fur on the carpet.
November 18, 2024 at 10:44 PM
He's looking reproachfully at me because I have been scritching behind his ears affectionately calling him my fascist feline, populist pussycat and Trumpy tiger. He was being a vindictive ahole to his brother this morning. Clumps of fur on the carpet.