Last month Mattel replaced the American expatriate who headed its Japan operation with Sam Sugiyama, a native who is a marketing hot shot from Unilever.
One report cites a company spokeswoman saying the site wants to take advantage of its Japan connections to transform itself into an e-commerce platform with a distinctly Japanese flavor, including Japanese brand products and a more Japanese look and feel.
The deal creates an elaborate way for Yahoo to sell its Alibaba stake back to Alibaba, and to sell its Yahoo Japan stake to its controlling investor, Softbank.
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If that helps Japan Inc expand its horizons, Japan would have something to be grateful to JAL for, too.
Its 10% slice this year will equal that achieved by Japan at its peak in 1986, but Japan's share has since fallen back to less than 5%.
Yahoo would swap most of its Alibaba stake and all of its Yahoo Japan stale for those new entities.
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Meanwhile a team of UK scientists is researching biological control of knotweed with fungus and a species of beetle which keeps the plant to a manageable size in its native Japan.
Indeed, when Wal-Mart set its sights on Japan last year, it followed its Mexican strategy.
Such longevity is impressive though not unheard of (East Asia grew for decades before its crash and Japan's economy roared for 15 years before its bubble burst in the early 1990s).
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Even China's foreign ministry used its website to urge Japan to face up to its past.
And incidentally, that could have protected you from the great Japanese bubble because when Japan had its real estate and stock bubble, Japan got to be 50% of the world's capitalization.
For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.
It is relying on its controlling stake in Japan's Mazda to develop its presence across the region.
At the moment, Yahoo consists of its core business that new CEO Marissa Mayer has been focusing on improving, its 35% stake in Yahoo Japan, and its remaining 24% stake in Alibaba Group.
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With the base row over, if America can rely upon Japan to play a greater part in its own defence, America can reduce the number of its own troops in Japan and move some forces to Guam or even Hawaii.
China is now by far Japan's largest trading partner, and its direct investments in Japan have grown sharply in recent years, albeit from low levels.
The US called upon Japan to let its currency appreciate, a request that Japan eventually accommodated, allowing the yen to appreciate by 40 percent against the US dollar.
Germany depends on nuclear power for 23% of its needs, and with Japan considering cutting back on its nuclear expansion plans, the entire industry has been in retreat.
To me, the alternative energy story had at its roots surprising similarities to the fervor in the US around Japan before its housing bubble popped.
At its peak, Japan had more than 600 such cafes, mostly in Tokyo and Kyoto.
Following its launch in Japan, the system has seen strong demand in the country.
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At least it will be when it makes its debut in Japan come June.
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All Nippon Airways says 40, 000 seats have been cancelled on its China-Japan flights since the row began.
Intel, for instance, has a major chip plant in Malaysia that exports part of its output to Japan.
Although such a parallel has become commonplace with Hashimoto's critics in the West, its mention in Japan was unusual.
Its fate was Japan's biggest corporate headache, with huge implications for unemployment and the survival of the biggest banks.
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The earthquake and its aftermath in Japan continued to roil electronics supply chains Monday as Texas Instruments Inc.
Besides India, Bubble Motion has its eyes on Japan, as it is an early adopter of mobile phone services.
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Its trading in Japan has proven particularly difficult to disentangle (see article).
Global growth will slow but remain positive in 1999, he predicts, and despite its recession, Japan is on the mend.
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