Corporate earnings will be a focus in Japan, with major companies including Toyota Motor Corp.
Instead, the focus on Japan shifted to how it needed to reform its corporate structure and financial system to be able to regain some of its former glory.
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Unlike Europe and America, where most electronics firms have split the design and manufacturing sides of their businesses and narrowed their focus, Japan still trudges on with five vertically integrated electronics giants.
Then Japan could focus on deregulation and trade opening so businesses are forced to invest in becoming more productive.
These companies have proven that Japan quality and focus customer satisfaction can drive successful expansion in new overseas markets.
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While there are right-wing parties in Japan, their focus tends to be a noisy brand of nationalism, rather than the emphasis on religious values embraced by Republican candidates like Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
Yet, important though Japan is, that focus is somewhat misleading.
It says it will continue largely to ignore Britain, where it thinks returns are too thin, as well as America and Japan, and instead focus on Germany, Italy, Spain, France and central Europe.
The US and Japan have seen a greater focus on stimulus measures compared with Europe, where austerity measures have taken precedence.
The main focus of the hackers: setting up phony Japan disaster domains that are actually secret phishing sites.
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The focus for the yen was the Bank of Japan's upcoming policy meeting, scheduled to take place next week.
Translation: Japan should give priority to and focus first on the talks being promoted by Beijing to create a regional Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which would closely bind China, Japan, and Korea.
"In Japan, women take the initiative to get married -- and the trend for them had been to focus on their career and enjoy single life, " explained Ritsuko Matsui, a prominent psychiatrist who counseled survivors of Japan's last devastating quake around Kobe in 1995, which left more than 6, 000 people dead.
Winning in Japan will require adroit stock picking, with a focus on stable earnings growth, returns to shareholders, and share of revenues from emerging country business.
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Though the Chinese yuan's value has been Topic A, key American manufacturers, like the automakers, focus on the yen, suggesting its weakness is the secret to Japan's productive prowess.
For all the focus on America's economic and corporate worries, Europe and Japan (see page 15) are in worse shape and taking longer to address some of the problems.
If Japan has to pull back on its buying of Treasurys to focus on its own mounting debt, that would put some pressure on interest rates.
The bottom line is that Japan has a long history of whiskey production, with a focus on higher end single malts, often aged 12 or more years.
Away from Japan, China's monthly slew of economic data was in focus on Friday.
As an alternative, opponents say Moscow should focus on providing energy to resource-starved countries in Asia, such as China and Japan.
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