An overview of Japan's startup ecosystem, which ranked sixth globally in venture funding in 2017, as interest in deep tech startups ramps up (Norihiko Isawa/Tech.eu)

Norihiko Isawa / Tech.eu:
An overview of Japan's startup ecosystem, which ranked sixth globally in venture funding in 2017, as interest in deep tech startups ramps up  —  Editor's note: this insightful guest post was penned by Norihiko Isawa, a strategy consultant at the Tokyo Office of Roland Berger.