Since then, the firm's Japan business has focused on institutional clients, such as pension funds.
"Japanese manufacturers were worried that the PAC-3 would be 100% imported, " says Keiichi Nagamatsu, managing director for defense production at the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren).
It is distinguished from better known Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) by comprising a membership of 1, 300 company owners and executive officers who join as individuals.
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They worked with the National Foreign Trade Council, the U.S.-Japan Business Council, and the Japan-U.S. Business Council, and got support from members of the U.S. Congress.
So bringing them, I think, within the umbrella of TPP, and ultimately a broad-based trans-Pacific free trade agreement, is going to benefit our business in Japan but also our business outside of Japan.
Historically, free cashflow is a good predictor in Japan of business investment, which, behind exports, has helped drive Japan's six-year recovery.
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The vice chairman-designate of the powerful business group, Keidanren, only expressed in a more forthright manner the frustration building within Japan's business establishment.
On Oct. 14 the Keidanren, Japan's main business federation, declared: "We in Japan strongly support the currency-control measures adopted by the Malaysian government" as necessary to stabilize the economy.
Confidence in the Japanese economy soared in the 1980s on the strength of Japan's business sociology.
And in Japan, overall business conditions declined in May, accounting for a fall in service sector confidence.
Keidanren, Japan's business lobby, recently floated a less ambitious version of the idea.
This has already caused Japan's business groups to cry out for a reduction in tax rates--but surprisingly, to be steadfast in supporting no intervention.
In the past several posts, I have presented in some detail conclusions of this reflection offers by the Japan Association of Business Executives (Keizai Doyukai).
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Japan's Electricity Business Act, however, doesn't allow foreign companies to supply electricity in Japan.
"We look for anything that we can buy domestically, and we all forgot about Japan unfortunately, " Mr. Levarek says, adding that the weaker yen will make doing business with Japan attractive again.
Acquiring Horizon, which means a work on six new nuclear plants for ten to 15 years, is such a decision, as are sale this year of the California-based hard drive business to Western Digital and spin-off of a Japan-based LCD panel business.
Son graduated from Berkeley in 1980 and returned to Japan to polish his business plan.
All of which is creating a handy new line of business for Japan's environmental-protection industry.
Profit was offset by a penny due to lose business in Japan after the March earthquake, the company said.
Despite a sick economy, in Japan it's business as usual in many ways.
America has struggled to use multilateral trading rules to cut through the web between government and business in Japan.
But the opportunity to build a full retail-broking business in Japan from the ashes of Yamaichi clearly excites Merrill more.
"Buyouts are a totally new business in Japan, " says Kensuke Shizunaga, who is the cohead of Carlyle's buyout team in Tokyo.
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This makes it hard for NEC to do any business outside Japan, where operators typically want vendors to help run the equipment.
It already controls 22% of Japan's weapons business and will make antimissile systems under license from Lockheed Martin in the first foreign PAC-3 production.
"Having a Diet member has become a pro-fitable family business in Japan, which the family and the election machine won't let go, " says Miyagawa.
Brash, young, aggressive, loud and on the make, these companies ooze with the type of values that Japan's old business elite finds distasteful and dangerous.
Yucho has recently lost some of its payments business to Japan's convenience-store chains, which together have an even more comprehensive branch network than the post office.
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