Japanese Customer News April 18th 2015
Japanese Customer News April 18th 2015
● “Percentage of 25 - 34 year olds with tertiary qualifications including vocational, Korea 67.1, Japan 58.4, Australia 45.7, USA 44.8, Source: OECD”
Source: Data Point: World Leader, Education, Australian Financial Review, April 13th, 2015, page 24.
● “Japan….the worlds’s 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 biggest foreign holder of US government bonds by Philip Baber, Australian Financial Review, Friday April 17th, 2015, page 22.
● “since December 2013, when Shinzo Abe was elected…on a platform of spurring inflation by weakening the yen, its US government debt holdings have risen $US113.2 billion…The yen declines 30 per cent in value to 119 per US dollar”
Source: Japan talks US debt holder crown by Kasia Klimasinka and Daniel Kruger, Australian Financial Review, Friday April 17th, 2015, page 29.
● “in the Japan Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (JAEPA). the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) threshold for Japanese investors in Australian businesses was raised to $1.078 billion”
Source: Australia’s Jobs Future - The rise of Asia and the services opportunity, ANZ:PWC, Asialink Business Services Report, April 2015, Friday 17th April, 2015, page 31.
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Japanese Customer News April 18th 2015
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