If you have visited Japan, lived there, or had personal or business relationships with Japanese people, you know that Japan and the Japanese are special.
And this presents Japan and Japanese companies with a huge problem as well as opportunity.
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The U.K. confirmed that British citizens were being held, and Japan said Japanese workers were among the hostages.
Toyota produces almost half its vehicles in Japan while Japanese auto makers Honda and Nissan produce around one-third of their vehicles in the country.
Whether or not Huntsman is right about the U.S., he would certainly be correct if speaking about Japan and the Japanese side of the Japan-China relationship.
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This company outing was to be the biggest tourist group since this summer when Japanese visa regulations were relaxed and the pool of potential Chinese tourists to Japan aligned to Japanese Ministry guidelines regarding job and income levels increased to about 20 million.
At her birth in Japan her mother was a Japanese citizen, and after living 18 years in Japan as a dual citizen, Renho opted for Japanese citizenship.
Certainly any local edge that big Japanese agencies might once have been able to claim has gone: the western agencies in Japan all employ Japanese copywriters who are just as good at churning out the surreal ads that Japanese consumers like.
Whither Japan aims to convey a Japanese perspective on how Japan is addressing its problems.
In fact, major sports figures in Japan who obtained Japanese citizenship are not unusual.
So world-class, export-oriented manufacturing companies based in Japan could lead Japanese stocks higher.
The same goes for Japan: maybe Japanese people are skinnier for non-governmental reasons, reasons have nothing to do with the welfare state.
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On the nuclear situation in Japan, the Japanese government has started to say the situation is stabilizing for the past few days.
And the U.S. stands with and supports Japan and the Japanese people as they recover from the March earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear emergency.
But it is a crisis in Japan that the Japanese obviously have to take the lead in dealing with -- and they are.
In March, a 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami caused widespread disruptions to power supplies and network connectivity to data centers across Japan, causing Japanese companies to rethink their traditional disaster recovery strategies.
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"Not only for ourselves, not only for the LDP but for the purpose of building a strong Japan, a prosperous Japan, and a Japan in which Japanese people will be able to feel happy about being Japanese, " he said.
In other words, after universities like Harvard and Stanford had gone to the trouble setting up reciprocal or unilateral exchange programs and had reserved thereunder a number of positions for students from Japan, the Japanese university was failing to produce the students.
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2012-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)- Today, Amazon.co.jp is excited to announce that the all-new Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD are coming to Japan, giving Japanese customers access to Amazon's vast selection of over 22 million books, manga, apps, games and songs, plus web browsing, email and more.
The workshop was jointly organized by the State Secretariat of Art and Culture of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, the Cova Lima District government and UNESCO with support from the Government of Japan through UNESCO Japanese Funds-In-Trust for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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For Japanese living in Japan, the overwhelming priority should be thorough study of the Japanese language.
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They also wanted the North Koreans to extradite five Japanese terrorists who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet to Pyongyang in 1970, and allow a Japanese fisherman, who vanished in 1963 and is thought to be living in North Korea, to be allowed to visit his family.
Through the First Sino-Japanese war, the Russo-Japanese war, and WWI Japan fulfilled its ambition of becoming a major power, only to over-reach and descend into ruin on 8.15.
In 1945, the World War II Allies replied to a Japanese communiqu , saying the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese government to rule Japan would be subject to the Allied Supreme Commander.
That would send capital flooding back into Japan--making Japanese stocks strong relative to all else.
My ultimate purpose is to enhance understanding and appreciation of Japan and of the Japanese people.
U.S.-based venture capitalists are generally disengaged from Japan and see the Japanese market as too small.
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Anyone who knows Japan knows that the Japanese are extremely, often seemingly irrationally, cautious and risk averse.
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Groups of young Chinese had been demonstrating against Japan, publicly smashing Japanese products.
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