Unpacking Japan | Why don't Japanese people know about Asian flush medication? @unpackingjapan | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Meet Beau, an entrepreneur developing Japan's first anti-Asian-flush product, who sits down with us to talk about the challenges of developing a product in Japan, and the legal nuances of developing medical products vs. supplements.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:32 Meet Beau
2:25 How Beau first got interested in Japan
5:03 Joining a traditional Japanese company
12:41 Japanese factory culture
15:26 Starting a company
17:21 Japan didn't have a cure for Asian flush
19:29 Japanese supplement drinks
26:11 Why Japanese companies will refuse to work with you
30:23 How to register a trademark in Japan
33:49 Deciding to leave his job to start a company
40:57 Starting a company right before lockdowns
44:07 Legalities of supplement vs. pharmaceutical products
50:02 Making it not taste horrible
54:01 Not being able to advertise what your product does
1:01:16 Response from customers
1:06:15 How to market supplement drinks in Japan
1:09:52 Lessons learned as a startup in Japan
1:16:48 The key to success as a startup

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