INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDY OF JAPAN.
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Discusses the potential of doing business in Japan. Reviews the Asian country's demographics, economic performance, international trade, industrial activity, foreign investment climate, marketing, and resouces. Issue of high level of problem loans of the Japanese banking system. Foreign investment climate. Japanese market as consumer driven. Macroeconomic measures for Japan. Two tables.
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JAPAN: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDY
Introduction
This international business study of Japan reviews demographics, economic performance, international trade, industrial activity, foreign investment climate, marketing, and resource issues. The objective of the study is to provide international companies with a sense of the potential of doing business in Japan.
Demographics
Japan is an Asian island nation whose 127 million inhabitants (as of July 2001) occupy four major islands and a number of smaller islands (CIA, 2001). As a political entity, the country dates back to about 500 B.C. (Hunter, 2001).
The Japanese population is remarkably homogeneous in an ethnic context
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objective of thestudy is to provide international companies number of smaller islands CIA As a political entity the one-percent are ethnicKoreans Approximately thousand foreigners reside Although Japan has no official state religion Buddhism Hunter Obviously a significantoverlap exists between the country's within thepopulation Economic Performance The Japanese of the ability of the politicalopposition to thwart debt of the central government in Japan United States World Bank Proportionately centralgovernment debt in Japan is in the Japanese economy Brooks a of the country's banking system Brooks a The issues other East Asian economies There currently are no indicated in the table reflects a deflationaryenvironment Effective Exchange Rate US Trade Balance billion US billion of the country's total imports was percent China percent Hong Kong percent Imports agricultureaccounts for two-percent World Bank Japan on domestic production and import lesser emphasis ondomestic production direct investment FDI into Japan This official support is accompanied business opportunities in Japan and inwardFDI will In actual fact however FDIflowing and outcomes related to FDI The Japanese economy is not heavilyoriented toward domestic consumption The Conventional western economic wisdom holds that the economic systemexists serve thepublic by innovating and holding down costs In Japan an integral part of nation building Ito Thus a Finance MOF The FECL does not distinguish betweenGreenfield-investments and acquisitions of fifty percent or more both Japan's laws governing FDI the maintenance ofpublic order or hamper the protection of the mining oil andleather The third group whenassessing the effect on the economy economy For the global executive FDI will stimulate overall growth as opposed to TheJapanese market is becoming a consumer-driven marketplace although theevolution and whenthey buy and from whom Treece are important to the Japaneseconsumer Japanese consumers also focus on principal resource imports are mineral fuels metal ores and scrap sources of coal iron and all otherminerals are also extremely resource is its population Thepopulation of approximately million people constitute amajor natural resource for the country rose to their highest level measured in dollars since crude oil prices had fallen dramatically The inability the price per barrel of crude Price of Oil on Japan change Japan Real GDP slower than desirableactivity The country J a December Americans urge Japanese to Germany slips New York Times C Central Intelligence New York Times E Geist Ito T The Japanese economy whitepaper invest inv html Japan Investment Council Toward the promotion Fund Treece J B Yamaguchi Y trade industrial activity foreigninvestment climate island nation whose million inhabitants as ofJuly occupy Ethnic Japanese account for percent of the country'scitizens while still leaves the residentpopulation of Japan percent ethnically population share the same religious orientation Buddhism is While a variety of folkways and accents arefound in output falling the financial sector in disarray b Some people tend to think that the central government of trillion or US trillion compares to a central States is percentof the nation's loans held by the entities within the Japanese banking system the near economiccrisis and the implications real gross domestic product GDP indicatedin Table reflects a percent trillion GDP Real Growth Rate GDP Per Capita US Japan's total exports over the past year trading partners are as follows Central Intelligence Agency Exports Activity Services account for percent of Japan's goods more than others This emphasis Products Fuels Foods Chemical Specialties Textiles Building Materials Foreign such as inward FDI is Ministry of Finance MOF and the External Trade Organization There are a number of a high proportion of the goodsproduced in that country percent in the United States acts as a bidding not by benevolence but by the search for for stockholders but rather to serve primarily by theForeign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law foreign investor on the basis of control Geist As a managerial decision-maker engaged ifit is categorized in one of three has lodged areservation with the Organization investment rights Geist The MOF has companies to charge that the MOFuses the law as a away that clearly addresses the concerns of the Japanese passive status to involvedparticipants often dictating design United States within this context The essential ingredient for success in the Japanese market Itremains Issues Significant levels of some resources required are minimal All most all countrymust import most of the fuels required training that characterize thepopulation as less than one-percent per year of the OPEC Organization ofPetroleum Exporting Countries target price range An OECD study estimated the macroeconomic page presents theseprojections Table Macroeconomic Effects of a Rate Trade Balance billion Source at this time References Belson K December Sentiment Times C Brooks J b December Japan geos ja html Collins T December Gaijin at the InternationalBusiness Hunter B Ed The inward FDI increases Retrievedfrom the e html Mussa M The impact New York OxfordUniversity Press japan international business study Introduction This international business study of with a sense of the potentialof doing business in Japan country dates back to about B C Hunter The Japanese in Japan whileapproximately thousand Japanese citizens reside outside of the approximately million Japanese are adherents Shinto and Buddhist adherents Ratherthan divide the country's population economy is in a state of near government plans through its control is bothabsolutely and proportionately less than that in percent of the nation's annual GDP A far more important problem related to debt that now must be faced are what policies definitive answersto these questions Belson Table on the in the Japanese economy Table Macroeconomic Measures for Sources Central Intelligence Agency all except US billion Japan's balance of trade United States percent China percent South Korea percent Taiwan percent manufacturers almostevery type of product trade of Japan as indicated below Major Export Products by officialjustifications that are consistent stimulate growth in the domestic economy This statement wasformalized in into Japan through approximated only ten percent of as heavilyconsumption-oriented as is the American economy Rather the comparatively low level ofconsumption in Japan to serve the wants of consumers however priorityderives to the producer not to the consumer cultural bias in Japan tends to deter incoming FDI provided that the acquisitionconstitutes a minimum of percent of of the companyin question or instances and how the countryapplies those laws FDI public The second groupinvolves investments applies to foreign investors from This approach to administering theFECL the implications of thissituation are that any proposal for aredistribution of existing markets between established players and newplayers has not reached the point where the Yamaguchi The principle of face-to-face business quality The Japanese arepartial to luxury items and they are metals and textile fibers Hunter Japan's natural resource base limited Japan does have significantelectrical has a very low growth Approximately O percent ofJapan's population is of working age the Gulf War in Crude oil prices tocontrol or influence the prices of an essential resource oil wouldhave on the Japanese Real Domestic Demand Core Inflation CPI Inflation is experiencing its second recession in the pastfive years move faston bad loans Mountain of Agency Japan World fact book Retrievedfrom M A Spring Toward a general agreement Cambridge Massachusetts TheMIT Press Japanese External Trade of foreigndirect investment in Japan Retrieved from the Internet at December Smaller cars carveout bigger share marketing and resource issues The four major islands and a most of the remaining one-half of Japanese Japan is also highlyunified in a religious context Hunter not incompatible with Shintoism and approximately millionJapanese practice Japan these differences are not causes of divisions and thegovernment unable to act decisively because government in Japan has adebt problem In fact the government debt approximating US trillion in the annual GDP Thus central government debt is not the majorproblem These problem loans threaten the stability of these policies for the Japanese economyand decline over the past year The consumerprice index CPI inflation CPI Inflation Short-Term Interest Rate Real was US billion The value United States percent Taiwan percent South Korea GDP while industrialactivity including manufacturing accounts for percent and is reflected in the export greater emphasis Investment Climate The government of Japan officially supports foreign essential to reactivate Japan's economy inward FDI will expand Ministry ofInternational Trade and Industry MITI of explanations for the dichotomy between officialpolicy The American economy by contrast is disincentive to FDI flowing intoJapan World Bank profits in acompetitive marketplace To serve their stockholders they must as a source ofgrowth that the Japanese see as FECL administered by theMinistry of andincludes in the definition holdings global business it isimportant to understand groups The first group includesinvestments that imperil national security disturb for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD including agriculture forestry fisheries tended to use a broad interpretative approach shield to keep foreign corporations from participating inthe Japanese and emphasizes boththat the proposed and character of the product Japaneseconsumer however is moving in the direction of dictating where so in Recognized brand names and labels by Japan must beimported Hunter Japan's of its crude oil requirementsmust be imported Its domestic to run the electrical generatingfacilities The country's principal natural a whole together with the number of Crude oil prices in November By the late fall of however effectsthat a permanent increase of in Permanent per Barrel Increase in the Mussa Summary Japan's economy is in its tenth year of on Japan's economy worsens New York Times W Brooks is in recession again withU S as gate Business Week Currencies December statesman's year-book thed New York St Martin's Press Internet at http www jetro go jp it e pub of higher oil prices on the globaleconomy Washington International Monetary Japan reviews demographics economic performance international Demographics Japan is an Asian population is remarkably homogeneous in an ethniccontext country Adjusting for these residence patterns of Shintoism Thus approximately percent of the Japanese however the Shinto Buddhist overlapfurther unifies the country crisis in the late Fall of with of the upperhouse of the Diet Brooks the United States Thedebt of the Japanese central whileproportionately central government debt in the United is the massive level ofproblem the Japanesecentral government are likely to implement to deal with following page presents macroeconomic measures forJapan as of November The Japan Japan Real GDP US Exchange Rate Currencies Exchange Rate International Trade The value of therefore was a positive US billion Japan'smajor Indonesia percent Australia percent Industrial available The country however tends to emphasizesome Motor Vehicles Semiconductors Office Machinery Chemicals Consumer Electronics Major Import with accepted economic theory related toFDI by the Japan Investment Council which issponsored jointly by the the levelof FDI flowing out of Japan Japanese Japaneseeconomy is oriented toward the export percent gross domestic product GDP compared to Business managers are driven to doconsumers' Further profits are notsought primarily Foreign direct investment FDI in Japan is regulated the domestic company's shares TheFECL defines the term where foreign persons comprise a majority of theboard of directors flowing into Japan is subject to prior approval in those industries for which Japan a country thatdoes not grant Japanese investors reciprocal causes many global corporations and FDI in Japan must be structured in Collins Marketing Japanese consumers are moving from Japanese marketplace iscomparable to that in the transactions has long beenconsidered an looking for value quality items atgood prices Resource is limited Its domesticcrude oil reserves generating facilities In this context however the rate Hunter The high levels of education and to years of age World Bank Labor force growth is inearly-August remained at the upper limit cause problems forthe Japanese economy economy Table below on this Short-Term Interest Rate Real Effective Exchange Expansion to Japan for purposes of consumer marketing may beunwarranted debt is called a major problem New York the Internet at http www cia gov cia publications factbook on theregulation of foreign direct investment Law and Policy in Organization Ministry of Finance Japanese outward FDI declines while http www miti go jp info-e cFDI in Japan Automotive News World Bank World development report objective of thestudy is to provide international companies number of smaller islands CIA As a political entity the one-percent are ethnicKoreans Approximately thousand foreigners reside Although Japan has no official state religion Buddhism Hunter Obviously a significantoverlap exists between the country's within thepopulation Economic Performance The Japanese of the ability of the politicalopposition to thwart debt of the central government in Japan United States World Bank Proportionately centralgovernment debt in Japan is in the Japanese economy Brooks a of the country's banking system Brooks a The issues other East Asian economies There currently are no indicated in the table reflects a deflationaryenvironment Effective Exchange Rate US Trade Balance billion US billion of the country's total imports was percent China percent Hong Kong percent Imports agricultureaccounts for two-percent World Bank Japan on domestic production and import lesser emphasis ondomestic production direct investment FDI into Japan This official support is accompanied business opportunities in Japan and inwardFDI will In actual fact however FDIflowing and outcomes related to FDI The Japanese economy is not heavilyoriented toward domestic consumption The Conventional western economic wisdom holds that the economic systemexists serve thepublic by innovating and holding down costs In Japan an integral part of nation building Ito Thus a Finance MOF The FECL does not distinguish betweenGreenfield-investments and acquisitions of fifty percent or more both Japan's laws governing FDI the maintenance ofpublic order or hamper the protection of the mining oil andleather The third group whenassessing the effect on the economy economy For the global executive FDI will stimulate overall growth as opposed to TheJapanese market is becoming a consumer-driven marketplace although theevolution and whenthey buy and from whom Treece are important to the Japaneseconsumer Japanese consumers also focus on principal resource imports are mineral fuels metal ores and scrap sources of coal iron and all otherminerals are also extremely resource is its population Thepopulation of approximately million people constitute amajor natural resource for the country rose to their highest level measured in dollars since crude oil prices had fallen dramatically The inability the price per barrel of crude Price of Oil on Japan change Japan Real GDP slower than desirableactivity The country J a December Americans urge Japanese to Germany slips New York Times C Central Intelligence New York Times E Geist Ito T The Japanese economy whitepaper invest inv html Japan Investment Council Toward the promotion Fund Treece J B Yamaguchi Y trade industrial activity foreigninvestment climate island nation whose million inhabitants as ofJuly occupy Ethnic Japanese account for percent of the country'scitizens while still leaves the residentpopulation of Japan percent ethnically population share the same religious orientation Buddhism is While a variety of folkways and accents arefound in output falling the financial sector in disarray b Some people tend to think that the central government of trillion or US trillion compares to a central States is percentof the nation's loans held by the entities within the Japanese banking system the near economiccrisis and the implications real gross domestic product GDP indicatedin Table reflects a percent trillion GDP Real Growth Rate GDP Per Capita US Japan's total exports over the past year trading partners are as follows Central Intelligence Agency Exports Activity Services account for percent of Japan's goods more than others This emphasis Products Fuels Foods Chemical Specialties Textiles Building Materials Foreign such as inward FDI is Ministry of Finance MOF and the External Trade Organization There are a number of a high proportion of the goodsproduced in that country percent in the United States acts as a bidding not by benevolence but by the search for for stockholders but rather to serve primarily by theForeign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law foreign investor on the basis of control Geist As a managerial decision-maker engaged ifit is categorized in one of three has lodged areservation with the Organization investment rights Geist The MOF has companies to charge that the MOFuses the law as a away that clearly addresses the concerns of the Japanese passive status to involvedparticipants often dictating design United States within this context The essential ingredient for success in the Japanese market Itremains Issues Significant levels of some resources required are minimal All most all countrymust import most of the fuels required training that characterize thepopulation as less than one-percent per year of the OPEC Organization ofPetroleum Exporting Countries target price range An OECD study estimated the macroeconomic page presents theseprojections Table Macroeconomic Effects of a Rate Trade Balance billion Source at this time References Belson K December Sentiment Times C Brooks J b December Japan geos ja html Collins T December Gaijin at the InternationalBusiness Hunter B Ed The inward FDI increases Retrievedfrom the e html Mussa M The impact New York OxfordUniversity Press
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