-
But the Japanese companies' size is also a disadvantage.
ECONOMIST: Japan's electronics giants
-
Space Shuttle Discovery blasted into orbit yesterday with a Japanese science lab the size of a school bus in tow.
NPR: Shuttle Lifts Off with Science Lab in Tow
-
Research found that Japanese consumers prefer a smaller tablet size of seven inches, in part because they want to be able to hold the device in one hand on the subway.
FORBES: Asus Betting On Android And Windows For Tablets, Not Chrome
-
Although Mr Koizumi has had close ties to the finance ministry, upon taking office he was initially more concerned with overhauling expenditures, and their effect on Japanese politics, than with the size of the fiscal balance itself.
ECONOMIST: The deficit may be the least of the prime minister's worries
-
The figure is equivalent to the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
BBC: Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn
-
That said, Japanese indebtedness is pretty much the same size - at the end of 2010, as opposed to the end of March 2011, Mckinsey says Japan's debts were also 492% of GDP.
BBC: UK's debts 'biggest in the world'
-
To put that into context - it is more than a quarter of the total GDP (gross domestic product) for the whole world - about the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
BBC: Tax evasion aided by global inertia
-
In 1942, in Singapore, a British-led allied force of some 85, 000 troops, bombarded and cut off from support and supplies after a week-long battle, surrendered to a Japanese invading force less than half its size.
CNN: Saturday,
-
It should also make investing in Japan more attractive for middle-size U.S. companies that find the Japanese market daunting under the current heavy tax, says Mentz.
FORBES: U.S.-Japan Treaty Will Cut Double Taxation
-
Our dining room was about the size of a gymnasium, a quarter of it already occupied by other Japanese.
CNN: THE YEN TO TRAVEL