Australian companies slow to enter Japan

 

Picture: Yakisoba noodle stall in Japan

“While Japan is the third-largest consumer market for many products, Australian firms’ investment there — with a handful of exceptions — has been tiny due to timidity, cultural and language factors and complexity and regulation on the Japanese side.”

Source: FTA to spur a new wave of Japanese investment in agriculture The Australian Newspaper, By Rick Wallace , Wednesday January 14^th, 2015, Online,

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/fta-to-spur-new-wave-of-japanese-investment-in-agriculture/story-e6frg6n6-122718386

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Japanese investors lured to Australian bonds

 

Picture: Japanese samurai armour

“Japanese investors bought $2.87 billion of Australian bonds in February…(2015)…the second-biggest amount in the past 10 years, Ministry of Finance data showed….Australian bonds have remained attractive (2.25 per cent)…to Japanese investors, where yields are not far from zero”

Source: Japanese bond buying slows Aussie’s descent, by David Rogers, The Australian Newspaper, Thursday April 9^th, 2015, page 31.

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Japan largest owner of US government bonds

 

Picture:Japanese anime figurines

“Japan….the worlds’ third-largest economy…the largest foreign owner of US government bonds…Japan held $US 1.2244 trillion at the end of February (2015)”

Source: Japan surpasses China as the biggest foreign holder of US government bonds by Philip Baber, Australian Financial Review, Friday, April 17^th, 2015, page 22.

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Japanese customers not satisfied with digital subscriptions according to survey

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“43% of Japanese consumers are unsatisfied with the value of digital subscription services and will need convincing before they sign"


Source: Tuesday, December 15th, 2015 MIS Asia, Web, Capitalizing on Asia’s growing appetite for digital content.

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Japans Maglev built without government subsidies

Picture: Train station Japan 

“Japan’s most profitable high-speed rail operator, JR Tokai, is building a maglev system between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka without government subsidies. The system relies on superconducting magnets to lift, stabilise and propel trains at 500km/h within a guide-way”


Source: We will get better cities if we have more of them, by Brian Toohey, Australian Financial Review, Tuesday 20th October, 2015, page 55.

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Predictability an important component of Japanese life

Picture: Japanese High Speed Train

“Predictability in social and public life makes Japanese cities the safest on earth” Taggart Murphy


Source: Ours is not to reason why, The Economist, Review of book “Japan and the shackles of the past by Taggart Murphy”, Oxford University Press, The Australian Financial Review Newspaper, Thursday January 15th, 2015, page 35.

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“Japan is responsible for its own losses" Yoichi Funabashi

Picture: Gion Matsuri Kyoto Japan 

“Japan is responsible for its own losses. The country’s delayed adaptation to the international environment and its weaknesses in international competition in terms of industrial bases, workforce, businesses entrepreneurship, and globalization – none of these things were forced on Japan by any external actor” 

Yoichi Funabashi in the book “Examining Japan’s Lost Decades”



Source: Graceful decline in need of disruption by Greg Earl, Australian Financial Review, Wednesday, June 24th, 2015, page 41.

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Australian exporters get benefits from new trade deal with Japan

 

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"The Japan-Australia Economic agreement will give many Australian producers and exporters a significant competitive advantage. More than 97 per cent of Australia's exports to Japan will receive preferential access or enter duty-free when JAEPA is fully implemented"

Source: The Robb Report

By Andrew Robb

Federal Member for Goldstein

August 23rd 2014, page 8

More elderly in Japan being subject of police actions according to report

Picture: Bicycle Parking Lot Japan

“Last year (2014) was the first since the National Police Association began keeping track in 1989 that more elderly people than juveniles were the subject of “ police actions”





Source: The Small Print August 27th, 2015 by Steve Trautlein, Issue 1118, www.metropolisjapan.com





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Japanese shares reveal high earning multiples

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“price to earnings multiples suggest some of the best value in developed markets, is to be found in Japan. Perhaps surprising given the very strong run Japanese stocks have enjoyed this year. Even so, current multiples show Japanese equities still trading at double – digit discounts (16 – 18 per cent), to average ratios….compare this to Europe and the US, which both trade at discounts around 5.5 per cent”

Source: Japan looks like land of rising value, by Adam Carr, The Australian Newspaper, Thursday July 2^nd, 2015, page 2.




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Australian exports to Japan down 17.5 per cent from previous year

Picture: Traffic in Tokyo, Japan 

“Australia’s exports…. to Japan…were down about 17.5 per cent…below their level of a year ago”

Source: Secondary markets keep exports bubbling along, 

by David Uren, The Australian Newspaper, Friday, July 3^rd, 2015.

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"In Japan relationship trust planning and risk avoidance are all very important factors" Mark Shrine

Picture: Business meeting in Japan 

"In Japan, relationship, trust, planning, and risk avoidance are all very important factors "

General Manager Japan & VP Asia, Mark Shrine, Welocalize


Source: Welocalize helping global brands grow and reach audiences worldwide
By Chris Betros
Japan Today
FEB. 15, 2016
http://www.japantoday.com/category/executive-impact/view/welocalize-helping-global-brands-grow-and-reach-audiences-worldwide

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Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ chases Asian growth

Picture: Japanese customers enjoy fireworks 

“Mitsubishi UFJ has been the most aggressive of Japan’s banks in seeking to tap Asia’s consumers as sluggish growth and shrinking loan margins hamper prospects at home…Japan’s biggest lender is considering acquiring a bank in Indonesia, the Philippines or India”

Source: Mitsubishi UFJ views expansion in Asia, 

by Chanyaporn Chanjarden, Australian Financial Review, Thursday July 2^nd, 2015, page 24.

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Australia sells $1.5 billion of beef to Japan, largest export market

Picture: Beef barbeque restaurant in Japan 

" (Australian) Beef trade with Japan

Value: $1.5 billion

Tonnes: 279,702

Live cattle: 11,570"

Source: New boom for meat exporters

By Matthew Cranston

Australian Financial Review

Thursday 18th September 2014, page 14

.."one feels lighthearted with the thought that spring has come" Natsume Soseki

Picture: Japanese cherry blossom 

"when one sees the early-flowering cherries bursting unrestrainedly into bloom before anything is out, one feels lighthearted with the thought that spring has come"Natsume Soseki


Source: Ten nights of dreaming, Hearing Things, The Heredity of Taste,
page 85
Author: Natsume Soseki