The just-released report cites the discounted price of the 3DS and Wii as primary reasons, but also the Japanese yen is to blame.
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The stakes in the Nissan experiment are high - and not just for the company, but also for the Japanese economy as a whole.
Today, it's called Koreatown and is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the city, made up not only of Koreans but also Latinos, Japanese, Filipinos and others, including many recently arrived immigrants.
That not only makes Japanese goods more affordable to foreign buyers, but also boosts the earnings of Japanese firms that rely on foreign sales.
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That would not only put further pressure on the yen, but also see deposits in Japanese banks dip.
They have an edge not only over the Americans and the Japanese, but also over firms from spoke countries, since, for example, South Africa and Mexico do not enjoy privileged access to each other's markets.
The future belongs to those companies that can succeed at investing and manufacturing abroad in countries like China, Thailand, Mexico, and the U.S. And not only manufacture abroad for foreign markets, but also for export to the Japanese home market.
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This is apparent not only for Japanese companies, but also for German and Korean, indeed for U.S. companies.
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The paper is helpful in highlighting not only the challenges facing Japanese business, but also its strengths in meeting those challenges.
While doing so would require not only the establishment of a significant industrial base but also the departure from long-standing Japanese policies against the export of weapon systems to countries other than the United States, such developments cannot be ruled out.
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The factories mainly supply the Japanese market, but they are also a source of engines and parts for assembly plants overseas as well as some vehicles that are made only in Japan.
The country has been forced to deal with environmental issues not only because the Japanese care about nature, but also because they increasingly live in ever-closer quarters in Tokyo, Osaka and a handful of other big cities.
Japanese automaker Nissan is also expanding, but it's also doing something else quite radical: it's hiring.
But the deeper question was also asked: why are Japanese students not interested in studying abroad?
Successful investors will look at individual companies, but there is also a way to invest broadly in the Japanese economy without buying an index or ETF.
The remaining yield on longer-term bonds is a risk premium that is commensurate with U.S. interest-rate volatility (Japanese risk premiums are lower, but they also have nearly zero interest-rate variability).
For example, in Japan most people just buy Japanese content, but a significant portion of people also buy English books.
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The company is taking a loss on every console sold, but as long as any given customer also buys one game, the Japanese company is in the black.
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Shoji may be distinguished not just by the ethereal quality of her music (facilitated by a Stradivarius Recamier produced in 1729, on loan to her from a Japanese company that supports its most accomplished artists), but also by her willingness to challenge difficult pieces and ensembles.
Not only have the Detroit companies retreated in the face of Japanese advances in the American domestic market but their European subsidiaries have also long been ceding share, as have such European players as Peugeot-Citroen, Volvo, Jaguar, and, of course, Renault.
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The nationalities of some of the hostages killed are still not known, but as well as the Britons, US, Norwegian, and Japanese nationals are also missing.
It should also be noted that any production interruptions will impact not only them, but many other Japanese companies as well.
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It appears that the Japanese also spend marginally less than the U.S. "But they get so much more out of it, " says Cato's Niskanen.
As we know, 13 is an unlucky number in North America and Europe, but the 14 was also avoided because the number four "sounds like an unlucky word" in Japanese.
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In 2005, when China last released the yuan from its dollar peg, analysts believed that the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the South Korean won dominated the basket, but that the basket also included the U.K. pound, the Thai baht and the Russian rouble.
As working-age Japanese have left rural areas to seek jobs, urban Japan has sprawled outward, but also headed straight upward, with massive apartment towers rising everywhere.
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