Japan has 41% of the 100-year companies – secrets of 1,447-year survival

It's concerning to me how the author generated AI images and gave them captions as if they are real depictions.

If I'm going to read an article about something real in society, I'm only interested in images that are true depictions of reality. They may not so perfectly capture what the author is envisioning, but the gap between "perfect for this article" and "real" is what makes a real picture interesting.

This article starts by repeating the same paragraph five times, then pretty much twice again with different wording. Was there even a human in the loop? I doubt it.

It should not be underrated how much of this is intentional policy environment shaping by the Bank of Japan and the Japanese government, rather than some inherently wiser management philosophy.

This is terrific advice and more relevant than ever in the gaming industry, where Xbox is bleeding studios and employees, but Nintendo just gave everyone a 10% raise.

Most of these businesses are going to be acquired in the next 10-20 years though because most of these generational Japanese businesses are now in the midst of succession crises [0], MASSIVE inheritance tax bills [1] and family increasingly uninterested in taking up the mantle [2].

One of my friends is actually specializing in this kind of M&A in APAC now.

Edit: Taking a look at the article and the images, I think this is actually AI slop. A bit shook by how photorealistic AI pictures have become

[0] - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/japan-succession-crisis-priv...

[1] - https://www.privateequityinternational.com/japan-tax-overhau...

[2] - https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3358837/jap...