Instead of randomly networking, a tightly focused nodal networking approach will tend to be the most effective and efficient in enabling you to source wealthy clients.

FORBES: How Life Coaches Become Very Wealthy (Part 2): Building a High-End Clientele

Thanks to the nodal position of the prefectures, sitting as they do between the centre and Japan's 3, 200 municipal governments, these ties have helped to preserve in modern Japan some of the features of pre-war society: uniform, centrally-determined policies and docile obedience in carrying them out.

ECONOMIST: Japan