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Charity Begins at Home for Toshiba

March 22, 2011
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  Charity Begins at Home for Toshiba Hello Tosh; Gotta Toshiba? Perhaps it was before your time but Toshiba really nailed it with that 1984 advertising campaign.   It’s funny because way back then it was all about the stereo….how far things have come.  Today Toshiba is still in the news, forever the helpful.  Along with Hitachi, the company had sent “hundreds of staff to provide support at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and to carry out checks at the...

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Japan Returning To Recession?

March 19, 2011
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    Well, if it did it certainly wouldn’t be surprising.  There’s not that much worse than what the country endured last week, with the extent of its earthquake and tsunami.  So why is this enough to make headline news?  Well, because what’s newsworthy is that the country looks set to “become the first Group of Seven member” to go back to that recession status following the easing of the global financial crisis. Statistics and Truth Although it is...

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Online Drug Companies Abusing Tsunami Disaster?

March 17, 2011
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Obama Causing Panic? There’s always someone who tries to make money from a disaster.  And this time it’s following Japan’s tsunami, with the threat that Americans might be in danger of the nuclear fallout.  This is likely due to the panic President Barack Obama and his top medical official raised which has led to Americans buying drugs for protection.  Although Obama himself was given the assurance that “any harmful radiation from Japan will have dissipated before it reaches Hawaii...

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Market Mess in Japan? Too Soon to Tell

March 15, 2011
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    Not surprisingly following Japan’s crazy earthquake and tsunami, the financial markets are in a sate of panic.  Finance leaders in the country are trying to calm the situation as the nuclear power crisis continued to worsen matters.  With an estimation according to Bank Credit Suisse of a loss of $171 billion, it’s no great shock that there is this panic. But the question being asked is how much do economists really need to panic?  According to Finance...

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Japan’s Economy: Where to Now, with Failed Fukushima Power Plant?

March 13, 2011
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Following Japan’s “monstrous earthquake” (the largest in the region for over 1,200 years; seventh largest ever in the world), the country’s Fukushima power plant failed which has led to “fears of serious accident.”  But experts have said that there isn’t a risk to human health from the low radiation.  The crisis in Japan is no doubt escalating following Friday’s earthquake and tsunami ; a situation which isn’t being helped by the failure of another emergency cooling system at a...

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Naota Kan to Celebrate International Women’s Day?

March 8, 2011
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Although he may be struggling to win popularity in his cabinet, Naota Kan might have some fans from the fairer sex and might even be stealthily celebrating International Women’s Day today.  Following his university graduation, Kan was a staff member for Fusae Ichikawa’s campaign, a woman’s rights activist.  But unfortunately, this isn’t exactly helping his case today.  When things are already looking somewhat bleak for the guy, his cabinet is facing further instability leading commentators to conclude that his...

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What Would King George VI Have Said About Singapore’s Rice Crisis?

March 6, 2011
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Pest storms are devastating rice production in Singapore, which is no good for anyone since this grain is a staple throughout Asia.  This is becoming a threat to the country’s food security and could completely destroy rice farms throughout the region, according to Singapore scientists.  Indeed, there is talk that the pesticides used to counter this problem may be doing the opposite – making it worse.  The problem has partly been caused by trying to go cheap:  use of...

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Japan Aeroforge Ltd. Investments

March 2, 2011
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      The new Tokyo-based company Japan Aeroforge Ltd. That will be creating nickel and titanium products for airplanes is going to be investing approximately 20 billion yen in order to build a plan in Kurashiki, Okayama.  What this will mean is that any procedure needed to complete the building of titanium aircraft parts will be able to be undertaken in Japan.  The company will be receiving capital from Marubeni-Itochu Steel and Sojitz Aerospace Corp. for this venture. ...

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Economic Status of China Versus Japan

March 1, 2011
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Economic Status of China Versus Japan

 Last quarter, China jumped in to second place in the world’s largest economy, pushing Japan out.  This is quite a significant jump considering its Communist isolation some years ago.  Figures for the second quarter were Japan’s GDP at $1.288 trillion (China at $1.337 trillion). Japan’s yearly GDP is $5.07 trillion, with China’s exceeding $4.9 trillion. China took the world out of the global recession last year, given its huge economy (over 90-times larger than in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping...

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Tokyo’s Investments Today

February 28, 2011
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Good news has just been reported for Tokyo this year is the doubling of investment in large Japanese blue-chip companies.  Indeed combined stakes are now worth more than 1.6 trillion yen (which translates to $US19.4 billion).  The stakes do seem somewhat passive (investors remaining tight-lipped on corporate strategy and management).  But the stakes also show the escalating monetary ties between China and Japan as well as China’s increasing financial status.  This is simultaneous to the eclipsing of the Chinese...

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