Settlement of the dispute, which both sides say is overdue, could be the official cue for a wave of Japanese investment.
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The Glazers, thus far, have stated unequivocally the club is not for sale despite the Red Knights appointing Japanese investment bank Nomura to help with their bid.
Nomura, a Japanese investment bank, is going to downsize hardcore.
The fall of the dollar against the yen after the Plaza Accord of 1985 led to a surge in Japanese investment in South-East Asia, and in exports from the region.
It is hard to imagine anything more detrimental to the continuing development of Japan-China trade, as well as for Japanese investment in China in ventures producing for overseas markets.
Growth in Thailand's mobile market has slowed from more than 100% a year in 2002 to 11% last year, with Nomura, a Japanese investment bank, forecasting future expansion of only 5% a year.
But now the dollar's value against the yen is more than 30% higher than in early 1995, and so a link to the dollar is no longer such a lure for Japanese investment and technology.
The nostalgia is understandable: that pact was followed by a long period of strength for the yen and a boom for much of Asia fuelled by deceptively low-cost dollar borrowing and big inflows of Japanese investment.
Analysts from Japanese investment bank Nomura in Tokyo said in a report dated March 16 that while investments into foreign fixed income will undoubtedly slow because of the natural disaster, outflows from Brazil and other markets are unlikely.
He also had good fortune to govern California at a time when surging Japanese investment, the high tech boom and, perhaps most important of all, the military buildup accelerated by the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan generated a remarkable economic boom.
You make the implicit assumption that the low return on Japanese corporate investment can be raised without cutting its level.
China and India are not major recipients of Japanese FDI, with Japanese direct investment equating under half a percent of GDP in both nations.
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The pursuit of higher returns by Japanese firms requires domestic investment to fall.
Japanese companies concentrated on investment not profits because the financial system and the tax regime encouraged them to do just that.
Over the past decade, investment in Japanese property has been one of the surest ways of losing a fortune, as prices have slid relentlessly.
Ultimately, Mr Enkhbayar admits, just as the Democrats did, that a liberal business climate that welcomes western, Japanese and South Korean investment is the best guarantee of national security.
Asia's oft-claimed miracle economic growth consisted of two parts: productive investment that resulted from Western and Japanese capital and technology, and non-productive investment that Asians made with their own savings.
Tashiro is calling for the Japanese government to increase their investment in research of renewable energy resources.
Low Japanese yields should push domestic investment funds to seek better returns farther afield with U.S. Treasuries the most likely destination.
Similarly, Ripplewood managed to recruit several senior Japanese to its board, including Minoru Makihara, then chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation, the trading and investment firm that epitomises the Japanese establishment.
North Korea has relied on the Korean-Japanese for some of the foreign investment it gets from the outside world, and for trade.
In June the U.S. investment giant received a Japanese securities license.
The earthquake might force Japanese companies to redirect foreign direct investment.
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It also allowed investors to transfer that money back to their accounts in the U.S. Excitement over this investment spread through the Japanese community here in the states, according to the complaint, and others jumped in.
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Rodgers needed to list just a few cases to make her point: the Japanese auto manufacturer Mitsubishi, the investment firm Smith-Barney, the Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, the president of the United States - on two counts.
Only 10% of Japanese firms use leases to finance capital investment, versus one-third in the U.S., so there's plenty of room to expand.
"We are now seeing a resurgence of Japanese interest in direct real-estate investment, " says Matthew Richards, head of Jones Lang's international capital group in Europe.
In theory, Japanese banks and securities firms could develop investment-banking expertise.
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There have also been reports that Hon Hai has asked for a seat on Sharp's board of directors in exchange for the investment, something that the Japanese firm is not seen as too keen to accept.
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