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Japan.co.jp
The Appeal
every document tells a story
When this domain is repatriated by Japan the story will continue on Bartz.com.
| 1965 | Born as 4th kid |
1972 | First business success rewarded with pony | 1977 | Sold more candy than Baseball Field snack shack and at better profit |
1979 | First Job. Selling Radio Advertising over telephone. |
1980 | First company. B&B Gardening with brother Mike (he could drive) | 1986 | Danced with Princess Leia (Carrie Fischer) on the Queen Mary, Long Beach | 1986 | First corporation. Telemarketing Visions Institute, Inc. A Non-for-profit corporation for teaching the blind how to sell on the telephone and get jobs. | 1986 | First University case study of a Brad Bartz business by senior class of Dr. Fred Keisner | 1986 | Got accepted to Loyola Marymount University day before classes started by the Dean of Admissions | 1989 | Graduated Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles | 1989 | Arrived in Japan, met wife on plane | 1990 | Launched first Japanese Interent Company | 1990 | Launched IAC-Online BBS | 1990 | Pardoned by Japanese Emperor Akihito | November 1990 new Emperor Akihtio pardoned 880,000 citizens and me from small offenses. Mine was drink driving ticket that I was actively contesting. 1990 |  
1991 | Japan Press Network starts uploading press releases to Bloomberg Business News |
1992 | Married Tomoko (25 years now!)
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1992 | Bradley Jr. born with bi-lateral cleft palette. Metamorph search engine used with 1000 pages of medical text about cleft-palletes (mitsu-kuchi) provided by friend and data
vendtor. | 1992 | Sold Coca-Cola the 1st ad online - on the planet! |
1992 | Second Univeristy case study of a Brad Bartz business with Dr. Willam Bolton at Keio Univerity, Yokohama, Japan | 1993 | Electornic book on Floppy disk with The Japan Times with an embedded natural language search engine and 1000 pages of JT news. |
1993 | Traded ad space to Budweiser on BBS with ANSI-SYS "BUDNET" campaign |  1994 | FIRST advertisement on a computer with a 5MB website installed on 300,000 IBM Japan Apitva Computers. Let's Internet!
|  1995 | Marie born. She just graduated from UC Berkeley and got hired to run a department! | 1995 | Joint Venture with NTT PC Communications | 1995 | Raised 327 million yen from Tiedemann Group in New York, USA by fund manager Campbell Gunn |
1995 | Scooterboy.com - First Internet Comic Book
|  1996 | Bought Tokyo Journal Magazine |  1996 | Wall Street Journal and Asian Wall Street Journal front page |
1996 | August - japan.co.jp and 100+ .co.jp domain name regisistered |
1996 | September - Blacklisted by Japanese Goverment | 1996 | 300 million in 1st year sales post funding | 1997 | Blacklist by Japanese government takes heavy toll | 1997 | BusinessWeek slaughter hammers that nail down | 1998 | 5 people left from 65 staff. | 1998 | Launch free email at Jmail.co.jp and the 100 .co.jp domain names |
1998 | How to Survive a Press Thrashing speech at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ) | Epic speech. BusinessWeek Japan editor stood up and apologized. Tanya Clark left in tears (she wrote the hit piece. Who paid her?).
1998 | 
1999 | Grow to 250,000 users by end of 1999 | 1999 | Sell control and pay all debts | 2000 | Denied by blacklist again for conversion of .co.jp collection to new .jp | 2000 | February, left japan with shirt on my back, withOUT my company and no debt. | Read Japan.co.jp: Hardhat Requried to learn about starting the first commercial internet company in Japan. Buy on Amazon .com 2000 | Fired by new owners of Jmail and screwed out of stock sale to Hans Tiedemann for $400,000 and slammed out of any ownship stake. Shameful behavior on his part. | Shaved my head in ceremony of retiring sumo legend.
2000 | Founded ABCsolar.com and swore never to go to Japan again. |  2000 |  Ran for School Board in the Palos Verdes Unitifed School District, California. Lost, but got 2,222 votes and ide
as implemented.
Platform for Disabled Student Rights  2001 | April 26th - Launched SolarDaily.com a newspaper for the solar industry with the Space Media Network of Sydney, Australia
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See More at www.SolarDaily.com
2002 | July 19th - Invented the Solar Hot Tub kit at www.SolarHotTub.com
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2003 | Solar-Powered Success in the local press |
2003 | Jetro Invites Brad Bartz to speak in Los Angeles at a 600 audience event. | Met chief economist to Prime Minister Koizumi during and after speech. He invited me to visit if in town. KEY MOMENT 2004 | Visited Japan to buy back Japan.co.jp and assets. Told story to Prime Minister Koizumi's chief econmist about the blacklist. | He called me a liar I gave him three cards: The economist called me the next day and apologized.
2004 | Bought back Japan.co.jp and all .co.jp domains assets. | 2004 | Ran for School Board again. Established advocate status and moved the needle. (lost again.)
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2005 | 2006 | The Solar Chicken!
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www.SolarChicken.com 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | Visited Japan with Family. Great Photos |
See More 2010 | Install larest Solar Grid Tie system in the City of Los Angeles at the LA Flower Mart as of 2010.
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2010 | Sold first master-matered Apartment Building in Los Angeles a $120,000 solar grid tie system | City of LA Building staff took a year to issue a permit. Epic battle. Generated the "Cheatham Solar Paradox" where cities ask for unobtainable data 2010 | Solar Business Keeps Palos Verdes Green |
2011 | March 11 The Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown changed the world and me. |
2012 | January Brought Tetsruo Nishida to Los Angeles to train for solar busienss. | 2012 | April started ABC Solar Japan tour. Wrote The Solar Bond, a business plan for the Japanese Feed In Tarrif. | I put a suit on.
2012 | June Moved to a Yurt on the Pacific Ocean coast of Chiba, Japan. |
2014 | Happy Times with Family Visit | 2014 | Art Advocacy. Oh Man. |
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Off Grid Speech in China. Your Choice. This or That. |
                                   <                 -- sep 7, 1997                             See Pigs fly http://bartz.com/jmail/new/ http://bartz.com/jmail/data/ July 2000 2018 | 2019 | 30 Years engaged with Japan. | 2020 | Hindsight says I should have gone to Korea. | | |||||||||||
Epic. Tragic.
Brad Bartz led the Internet venture business scene from 1990 in Tokyo. In 1995 he raised 4 million dollars from a New York Hedge Fund to expand its Joint Venture With Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT). In August 1996 Bartz registerd 105 .co.jp domain names exploiting the loophole of one company can only have one domain name by making 105 Delaware Corporations.
Japan.co.jp, JPN.co.jp, sushi.co.jp and many more. Then Brad Bartz and his company were blacklisted by the Japanese governement. A blacklist that is still in place and having continued negative impact. Read more at www.JPRS.com
Summary: JP Power (Solar Client) buys 1.5 million dollars worth of solar panels. ABC Solar delivers as contracted CIF to port. JP Power abaondoned at port and all hell breaks loose.
Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun by Bradley L. Bartz
I know the exact moment I lost my Japanese companies. A singular point in time. Twice.
You decide. Is being blacklisted by the Japanese government for owning Japan.co.jp bad? Or is JP Power just too unbelievable?
Did you know that I competed with JP Power in the 1990s? Did they hold a grudge that led to this failed solar transaction in 2013?
Japan.co.jp: Hardhat Required by Bradley L. Bartz
The fact that you are reading this at Japan.co.jp is the base truth for this story. I may own Japan.co.jp and get to post anything I want on the 100+ .co.jp domain names. That is true. But, I can not sell these domains. Google and other network advertisers pulled all ads with the blacklist years ago.
Again, you decide. Which is worse. A blacklist or JP Power leaving 1.5 million dollars of solar panels at the Port of Yokohama. Left them for ABC SOlar to somehow cleanup. The court gives no penalty to JP Power for abaondoning the solar panels. Instead, ABC Solar is penalized for not cleaning up correctly. Sheeeeeeesh!
The Venture Business Manual: Avoid Being Road Kill by Bradley Bartz - Coming Soon.
This is a great book and I highly recommend for any businessperson.
Japan taught me a lot about defense as a good policy for business anywhere. Learn real world key lessons for starting, running AND keeping your business. A series of business forms are presented for you to fill out. This is a working book.
The Venture Business Manual also has Non-Disclosure agreements and other key documents for reference and use
Pre order copies. Will be on Amazon.com shortly.
Email Brad@Bartz.com
The Appeal - Due April 2, 2018 - Filed.
Please send ideas!
The Judgement
The Testimony
Article 17 The Docusical
Article 17: The Docusical - See on youtube
Article 17: The Docusical - Read the Script
DOING BUSINESS
IN JAPAN?Don't Do It.
Legal Restrictions on Foreigners
with questionable justice.
IN JAPAN?
Don't Do It.
Legal Restrictions on Foreigners
with questionable justice.
(oh Brad! No, really, check it out. I registered this domain, Japan.co.jp, and two weeks later foreigners were outlawed from buying a Japanese domain name. So, yes, Japan has legal racism that gives competitive advantage to locals.)
Only one condidtion should you do business in Japan. That is when you own 100% of the distribution channel in Japan. Any deviation from this is short-sited as history is littered with ripped off JV partners in Japan.
Help Brad Bartz or... Banish Brad Bartz
Get struck by lightening twice, just do business in Japan.
Before you invest a yen, learn these stories and talk to Brad.
Learn who to avoid in Japan, some real scumbags. Learn that other markets offer a better chance of long-term success.
Skip Japan. Just visit to get drunk. Then its ok.
1. Japan.co.jp and the Japanese blacklist from 1996 to present
2. JP Power (Solar Client) buys 1.5 million dollars worth of solar panels. ABC Solar delivers as contracted CIF to port. JP Power abaondoned at port and all hell breaks loose.
Email Brad@Bartz.com and tell him how you feel about this case.
Did Brad receive fair justice?
How should Brad fix?
Your opinion matters.
Should Brad be granted an appeal hearing?
