Japanese Customer News January 23rd 2015

Japanese Customer News January 23rd 2015







Japanese Customer News January 23rd 2015




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● “Panasonic, Toshiba and Fujitsu have converted former electronics manufacturing sites for the production of vegetables, using hi-tech clean rooms”

Source: ‘Made in Japan’ hopes revived by Eric Pfanner, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian Newspaper, Tuesday January 20th, 2015 p22.


2

● “In Japan, the sale of adult diapers began to exceed those for babies a few years ago and more than 25 per cent of the population is at retirement age”
Source: Investing for the long term: picking trends that will move markets for years to come by Gregory Zuckerman, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian Newspaper, Tuesday January 20th, 2015, p23.


3

● “PWC Australia CEO Luke Sayers says the level of direct Australian investment and business activity in Asia beyond trade is ‘woeful’. He is right.”

Source: Upbeat CEO’s By Michael Smith, Chanticleer, Australian Financial Review Newspaper, Wednesday 21st January, 2015 page 40.


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● “Japan’s third-largest trading company Itochu...has been in business since Japan opened to the world in the late 1800’s”
Source: The new reality of Asian business is regional supply chains, by Greg Earl, The Australian Financial review Newspaper, Thursday January 22nd, 2015, page 29.



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● “A record 13.4 million tourists travelled to Japan last year…JNTO said international tourist arrivals rose 29 per cent last year…and their spending jumped 40 per cent to more than Y 2 trillion (AUS $ 20.6 billion)”

Source: Chinese shoppers flock to Japan by Eric Pfanner, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian Newspaper, Thursday January 22nd, 2015 page 25.

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