News
This category is for sites on business and economic news in Japan.
Business Week - Japan: The System That Soured
- Book excerpt of Richard Katz explaining what went wrong with Japan's economic miracle.http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/katz.htm
Accounting News in Japan
- Provides information about news in accounting standards in Japan.http://www2g.biglobe.ne.jp/~ykawamur/
Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform
- Essay investigating Japan's current recessions and lack of reforms, from the Japan Policy Research Institute.http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp81.html
BBC News: The Hidden Face of Japan's Recession
- 30 minute radio program on growing poverty in Japan: as recession bites, growing numbers of homeless and starving men are on the streets.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/audiovideo/programmes/crossing_continents/208036.stm
Biotech Japan
- News and business information on Japan's biotechnology industry, pharmaceuticals, bioventures, medical, and technology transfer resources. Funded by the Japanese government.http://www.biojapan.org/
Bureaucratic Corruption in Japan
- Essay delves into corruption in Japan's government ministries and police.http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp76.html
ExecutivePlanet.com: Japan
- Guide to business etiquette in Japan covering many aspects of doing business in Japan, including negotiating, entertaining, gift giving, and public behaviour.http://www.executiveplanet.com/index.php?title=Japan
Explaining Japan's Recession
- Economic essay asserting that both Keynesian and Monetarist explanations and solutions to Japan's economic stagnation failed and an Austrian theory of the business cycle provides the explanation.http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1099
Forbes: The Panic Spreads
- Documents Japan's continuing economic decline and demonstrates Japan's industrial crisis is reaching Great Depression levels.http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0218/022.html
The Hidden Realities of Computer Industry in Japan
- An online book from a long term Japanese computer engineer that while the products may be hi-tech, the industry in Japan is hopelessly backward.http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/mybooks/okite/index-eng.html
Japan Country Analysis Brief
- A US Dept. of Energy report on Japan's energy sector, with information on oil, gas, coal, electricity and nuclear power industry.http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/japan.html
Japan Economic Foundation
- Homepage of JEF offering articles and back issues of the Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry.http://www.jef.or.jp/
Japan Entrepreneur Report
- A monthly newsletter devoted to covering new business activity in Japan. With online archive.http://www.japanentrepreneur.com/
The Japan Investor
- Subscription based investor information for those interested in the Japanese market.http://www.japaninvestor.com/
Japan Rice Market
- Provides regularly updated news on Japanese rice, as well as monitoring current prices. With news archive.http://www.japan-rice.com/
JapanConsuming: Monthly Newsletter
- Analysis and reporting of Japan's consumer and retail markets to help overseas companies gain access to the Japanese market.http://www.japanconsuming.com/
Japanese State - Market Relations
- Short college essay on different views of the Japanese market and system, and argues that the market has not been in a purely subservient role in Japan.http://www.anime.net/~roba/PS431-2.htm
J@pan Inc
- Business magazine focusing on e-business, consumer products, and the changing economy.http://www.japaninc.com/
National Review: Setting Sun
- Hudson Institute economist Alan Reynolds argues that tax reform is crucial to reviving the Japanese economy.http://www.findarticles.com/cf_natrvw/m1282/n13_v50/20977850/p1/article.jhtml
Nikkei Net Interactive
- Daily financial news and information.http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/
NLI Research Institute
- Publishes online studies and research on economic and socioeconomic affairs of Japan.http://www.nli-research.co.jp/
No More Games in Japan's Referee-Free Capitalism
- Argues that legal reforms are also needed for Japan's economic woes to end, but current structural reforms may worsen the situation.http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kaneko.html
Revisiting the "Revisionists": The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Model
- Cato Institute essay exposing the shortcomings and failed predictions in Japan revisionist thinking.http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-003.html
Sarjam
- Japan's satellite cable broadband internet information site.http://www.sarjam.com/
Saving Japan
- A collection of essays by MIT economist Paul Krugman on the Japanese economy.http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/jpage.html
Terrie.com
- Weekly news and information about technology and e-business in Japan.http://www.terrie.com/
Textileinfo.com
- Introduces information related to innovative technology and management, at times unique to Japanese culture, as well as the latest news concerning textiles in general.http://textileinfo.com/
The Tokyo News
- Japan news headlines, world news and financial markets. Links to newspapers, weather, travel, hotels and a map of Tokyo.http://thetokyonews.net/