But that is how the Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory is being interpreted by global investors, if not Japanese voters themselves.
Most Nissan cars sold in Europe are not Japanese, but British.
One of Ghosn's first moves at Nissan was a shocker: He decreed that English, not Japanese, would be the official language of the Tokyo company, and he made it known that managers who learned English would advance faster than those who spoke only Japanese.
It is not that Japanese politicians and bureaucrats do not understand that excessive regulation has been killing entrepreneurship and growth.
They say they are worried that not enough Japanese are being born to support the elderly.
Banks will have to evaluate loans according to credit risk not the Japanese way hitherto.
The only real secondary market is provided by foreign firms, not the Japanese issuers.
That launched Bard's career in Japan, home to half his clients even though he does not speak Japanese.
All the central bank is doing is promising inflation, not protecting Japanese businesses against a permanently strengthening yen.
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You know, there's been this back and forth about whether or not the Japanese should be allowed to hunt whales.
Now the yen is one of the world's weakest currencies, not because Japanese companies lack competitiveness but because of Japan's financial problems.
Roman Martov, a spokesman for the Russian air force's eastern district, was quoted by Russian media as saying the planes did not enter Japanese airspace.
Not one Japanese financial firm has been bought outright.
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Mr Brockman said the idea that the Spitfires were hidden to stay out of enemy hands was not necessarily correct because Japanese forces would have not been in a position to use them at that point.
For example, if Japanese households held on to the single-male-wage-earner model for longer than US households then the aging of the Japanese workforce would not have affected the female Japanese labor force nearly as much.
That's not just for Japanese food -- French and Italian cuisine in Japan's capital city are sublime, too.
These low rates have not inspired the Japanese to put capital into either machinery or houses.
This is apparent not only for Japanese companies, but also for German and Korean, indeed for U.S. companies.
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This is not just a Japanese problem: elderly American managers hardly queue up to support foreigners taking over their employers.
It does not want the Japanese to join in any fighting, nor Japanese warships to patrol in South Korean waters.
Many, if not all, Japanese schools in China are suspending classes and telling students to stay home until the situation calms.
Watching her politics, one quickly notices that it is not true that Japanese people are always polite, respectful, and deferential to authority.
That not only makes Japanese goods more affordable to foreign buyers, but also boosts the earnings of Japanese firms that rely on foreign sales.
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After axing Mr. Woodford, senior Olympus executives explained that the Briton did not understand the Japanese business culture and the value of respect and consensus-building.
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Simply that they are not written with Japanese people in mind.
The reason is simple enough: they discovered that they did not understand the Japanese market and, in particular, the mentality and behavior of Japanese individuals.
Eventually, time and the efforts of individuals not only the Japanese Americans led to disclosures of suppressed information by the Government and the racism influencing the decisions made.
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Not only do Japanese corporations rely heavily on bank financing but corporate chieftains are generally under pressure to put jobs before profits, particularly in global downturns like the present one.
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Mr. EISENSTEIN: Well, not all the Japanese manufacturers have.
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