"Japanese automakers...focus on core principles that don't change: reliability, affordability and practicality" Rework - Jason Fried

"Japanese automakers...focus on core principles that don't change: reliability, affirdability and practicality. People wanted those things thirty years ago, they want them today, and they'll want them thirty years from now"

Source: Rework - Change the way you work forever

By Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Page 85

Vermilion books, 2010

Australian cheese is one of its largest agriculture exports to Japan

Picture: Home made pizza in Japan 

"Dairy products, predominately cheese, are one of Australia's biggest agricultural exports to Japan"

Source: FTA with Japan hinges on TPP

BY Philip Coorey & Greg Earl

Australian Financial Review

Friday 4th April, 2014, page 3

Japan has completely liberalised the retail electricity market

Title: Electric bath control panel 

"We have implemented complete liberalisation of the retail electricity market" and scrapped a 40 year old subsidy to cut rice planting, Mr. Abe said"

Source: BOJ puts the ball in Abe's court

By Gerard Baker, Jacob.M.Schlesinger

The Wall Street Journal

The Australian
Monday May 26th, 2014, page 20 

Japanese companies increasingly interested in Australian financial service firms

Picture: Suburban street scene, Australia 

"Japanese firms have demonstrated an appetite for building their prescence in Australia's financial scene...Nikko Asset Management snaffled the assets of Suncorp Group in 2010, the same year Dai - Ichi (Life Insurance) bought out the remainder of Tower Australia (in a $1.6 Billion deal)"

Source: National Australia Bank touts MLC risk book

Street Talk

Australian Financial Review

Thursday 3rd April 2014, page 22