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.
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● “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.
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● “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.
January 22, 2015
Japanese Customer News January 23rd 2015
January 20, 2015
Japan's Daiwa house maybe looking at investing in Australian homebuilder Devine
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| Title: Housing in Tokyo |
January 15, 2015
Japanese Customer News January 16th 2015
Japanese Customer News January 16th 2015
Japanese Customer News January 16th 2015
1 Foreign Investment
● “The more Honda resembles a foreign company - North America now generates more than half its revenues - the fewer incentives it has to invest in Japan and Japanese workers”
Source: Why isn’t Japan Inc. helping Japan? By William Pesek, Wednesday 13th January 2015, www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-13/japan-inc-isnt-very-japanese-any-longer
2 Trade
● “(JAEPA) (Japanese) Automakers are expected to benefit from the pact, with vehicles accounting for some 45 percent of Japan’s overall exports to Australian on a value basis. Australia will immediately abolish tariffs on Japanese cars with engine displacements of 1,500 cc to 3,000 cc. Tariffs on larger vehicles will be removed within three years.”
Source: Japan-Australia EPA takes effect Thursday, JIJI Press, Tuesday January 13th 2015, Japan Times Newspaper, Online http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/13/business/japan-australia-epa-takes-effect-thursday/#.VLb4kVXqGuY
3 Finance
● “there is already an appetite for Australian dollar fixed income products (in Japan) but huge untapped potential for selling diversified fund products to consumers.”
Source: FTA to spur new wave of Japanese investment in agriculture by Rick Wallace, The Australian Newspaper Online, Wednesday January 14th, 2015. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/fta-to-spur-new-wave-of-japanese-investment-in-agriculture/story-e6frg6n6-122718386
● “The yield on the five-year (Japanese) government bond hit zero for the first time, while the benchmark 10 year yield fell to a record low 0.255 per cent”
Source: Japanese bond yield falls to zero as investors look for safe haven, By Eleanor Warnock and Kosaku Narioka, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian Newspaper, Thursday January 15th, 2015, page 23.
4. Trade
● “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 new wave of Japanese investment in agriculture The Australian Newspaper, By Rick Wallace, Wednesday January 14th, 2015, Online, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/fta-to-spur-new-wave-of-japanese-investment-in-agriculture/story-e6frg6n6-122718386
5 Society
● “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.
6 Mergers and Acquisitions
● “Japanese…Recruit Holdings is set to buy (Australian) local listed rival Chandler Macleod, in a deal worth $382 million…Recruit is one of the world’s biggest human resources firms with a market capitalisation of Yen 2.4 trillion (AUS$21.5 billion)..Recruit...is also set to buy out Australia’s largest technology firm Peoplebank”
Source: Japanese HR giant to pay $290m for Chandler Macleod, By David Ramli and Jake Mitchell, Australian Financial Review Thursday January 15th, 2015, page 11.
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January 12, 2015
Matcha Japanese tea has ten times the antioxidant content of regular Japanese green tea
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| Picture: Matcha green tea |
(the naturally occurring compounds that prevent chronic disease and slow the ageing process)...packed with vitamin C, zinc, magnesium and the catechin EGCg..which has cancer fighting properties"
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