The rising yen against the dollar makes Japanese goods considerably more expensive for American consumers--Japan Inc.
Remember when Japan Inc. was going to take over the world in the 1980s?
And as they grow, they are laying a path to a new, more responsive Japan Inc.
What does seem to work is something Japan Inc. used to sneer at - shareholder value.
Soon enough, most Japanese had to borrow to afford a stake in Japan Inc.
To get the economy moving, Japan Inc took a page from its industrial-policy playbook of yore.
Within the traditional triumvirate of politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen that runs Japan Inc.
If that helps Japan Inc expand its horizons, Japan would have something to be grateful to JAL for, too.
And along with the news comes the resurgent drumbeat of the theme that Japan Inc. is on the move again.
The choice is Mr. Abe's reform or a chaotic bout of creative destruction Japan Inc. is likely to enjoy even less.
Embracing Defeat includes chapters on the Tokyo war crimes trials and the rekindling of the Japanese economy with the birth of Japan Inc.
Although Japan Inc. along with the rest of the country now seems locked in reverse, many of its companies are doing quite well, thank you.
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Cross-shareholdings that served to foster Japan Inc. were greatly unwound.
The traditional Japan Inc model of global expansion is to spend decades ploughing profits generated in a protected home market into loss-making operations abroad while building global market share.
Japan Inc. is now in the business of making money for investors, which is one reason why Japanese equities have been so perky of late, having lain etherized upon the table for a decade.
Its essence, in their view: If the Liberal Democrats were to do poorly in July's election, the prime minister might get the message that he should turn management of Japan Inc. over to someone else.
The BOJ, seeking instead to get long-promised reforms in the ossified post-war workings of Japan Inc. and its regulators, is fighting for time, though its governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, now has only until April in his term.
It's a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form whose modern iterations are better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s.
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The events offered the company a sales opportunity because supply disruptions led Japan Tobacco Inc.
"High-grade, government-owned corporates with strategic assets in the largest economy in Asia remain popular with investors globally, " said Duncan Phillips, co-head of debt syndicate in Asia ex-Japan at Citigroup Inc.
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"High-grade, government-owned corporates with strategic assets in the largest economy in Asia remain popular with investors globally, " said Duncan Phillips, co-head of debt syndication in Asia excluding Japan at Citigroup Inc.
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Harte-Hanks has some competitors in the high-tech field, including Japan's Softbank Holdings Inc. and Boston-based SalesLink Corp.
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