Burton Consulting International

08/05/2025

I finally made it into a Japanese pavilions—and wow, it was worth the wait!

The Iida Group Holdings & Osaka Metropolitan University pavilion is not just a vision of the future—it is the future. From smart homes with built-in AI doctors and trainers to a “Check-Up Gate” that scans your health as you walk through, Japan is designing what they call “smart living.”

🏆 Bonus? The pavilion holds TWO Guinness World Records:
- Largest building wrapped in Jacquard fabric
- Largest fan-shaped roof (could get a shot of this —please look it up!)

Blending tradition with tech, this pavilion shows Japan isn’t aiming for 2030… it’s already living in 2050.



Read more about my EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan visits at link in bio. Or go to:
https://www.burtonconsulting.biz/blog

31/12/2024

Happy New Year!

Thanks to my clients, colleagues, collaborators, family, and friends for a wonderful 2024.

Wishing us the very best in 2025.

14/05/2024

Check out my blog post https://wix.to/3wJkpHr

Guest Lecture @ Ritsumeikan University - Osaka-Ibaraki CampusAs a technology and business communications consultant with Japanese companies, I primarily work with professionals already several years into their careers. By that time, we are trying to change or reshape ingrained mindsets, behaviors an...

01/02/2024

Check out my blog post https://wix.to/YYDLLsb

As a consultant who works with Japanese companies and having lived in Japan for several years, I am familiar with the challenges that women face in the Japanese business world. In the past and still to too large a degree today, Japanese women are not given the opportunity to reach their full potenti...

27/03/2023

Osaka Castle (Osakajo) is ready and waiting for Expo 2025!

27/03/2023

Osaka’s Time!!!

02/03/2023

My office for the day in Jiyougaoka as I continue to work Globally, Virtually!

27/02/2023

Attending City-Tech.Tokyo!

01/01/2023

05/09/2022

This article points to one of the reasons I am a champion of Tech Fluency! Proficiency with modern IT tools/applications is essential to individual workers, companies, governments, and nations!

"Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62749310?fbclid=IwAR2fDTt3kfffod2cI2OmbuCwIzwptOu8zWTUMjBnOkTkNxRUZnsM1QqlOg4

"Where does one even buy a floppy disk?" asks Taro Kono, as Japan finally phases out the old tech.