NYTIMES: Japan’s Owners Can’t Find Successors - Giving it Away.

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February 27, 2023

by a searcher from Columbia University - Columbia Business School in New York, NY, USA

Maybe Japan needs search?



From the NYT article;
Hidekazu Yokoyama has spent three decades building a thriving logistics business on Japan’s snowy northern island of Hokkaido, an area that provides much of the country’s milk.

Last year, he decided to give it all away.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/business/japan-businesses-succession.html

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from Central Connecticut State University in New York, NY, USA
Someone in Japan built a platform to help solve this, similar to some YC startups you see here doing it.

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/###-###-#### /he-made-us950-million-finding-successors-japans-ageing-business-owners-using-ai
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