With 127,000,000 consumers – Japan is low-hanging fruit. Especially since you won’t have to do anything to make it happen. We at GaiaWorks have been operating here for more than 25 years, with a long list of successful product launches to our credit. Doesn’t yours deserve to be among them?     John Munroe is a Canadian entrepreneur based in Tokyo. With a strong background in advertising and marketing and thoroughly versed in Japanese business practices, John co-founded GaiaWorks in 1998 to import, market and distribute environmentally-friendly products to the Japanese market. The success of John’s enterprises is due to his guerilla marketing approach, one which leverages a powerful mix of grass roots and alternate media strategies. Since 1981 John has divided his time between Canada and Japan, and he is fluent in spoken and written Japanese. He is a member of The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan and The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.   Ken Yoshii was born into a traditional Japanese kimono business, but his career soon took him to Milan, London and New York in search of hit products for Japan. Ken has launched and represented numerous global fashion brands in the Japanese market. Equally at ease with Japan’s traditional trading conglomerate structure and with the burgeoning young entrepreneurial economy in this second-largest world economy, Ken brings a wealth of marketing savvy and business smarts to the team.   Mark Halpern is qualified as a barrister and solicitor (Ontario, Canada) and a solicitor (England & Wales), and in Japan has the status of “registered foreign law solicitor”. Since June 2001, he has carried on a corporate-commercial practice at Law Office of T. Mark Halpern. Arriving in Tokyo in 1993, Mark worked first with Nishimura & Asahi, Japan’s largest law firm. Prior to that, he practiced in Toronto with Blake, Cassels & Graydon (corporate-commercial and anti-trust law), the Canadian Department of Justice (tax litigation), and the Ontario Government (financial institution regulation). Mark holds a BA, MBA and JD from the University of Toronto and an LLM (Commercial Law) from the University of Cambridge.   Ross Munroe is a senior ad writer, with a long list successful client relationships to his credit. Having worked as a copywriter in a number of multinational agencies, Ross also served as Vice President, Creative Director in several mid-size agencies. Ross is known for his strong strategic thinking and breakthrough creative prowess. His work appears around the world, often in other languages. He has received hundreds of awards for his work in virtually every medium including television, radio, outdoor, print and direct mail. He has won in Cannes, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles – and took the Gold Bessie for the best TV spot of the year in Canada.