´´ News on Japan - Week 3, January 2016

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

News on Japan - Week 3, January 2016

Having stable political leadership in Japan is a unique luxury among large economies. Japan should use that stability to promote domestic growth and global economic governance standards.

Should Japan Fear China's Stock Market Crash This Time? (The Diplomat)

Amid the wreckage of Japan’s stock market in 2016 lies a surprise: Smaller companies are posting their best relative performance on record.

Japan’s small-caps doing well while big exporters get a bruising (The Japan Times)

Abe’s economic policies cannot be called either conservative or liberal. Perhaps more appropriately the should be called “state capitalism” as exercised in countries like China, Russia and Singapore. 

Abenomics: State Capitalism (The Japan Times)

The BOJ pushes the ETF industry to design products that don’t exist. The biggest limit on creating such products is whether they work as investments.

Japan ETF Firms Must Get Creative as BOJ Offers $2.6 Billion (Bloomberg)

Recruiting is by far the biggest issue for companies operating in Japan. What is lacking is not the people, but the talent. Some call it the “Japan Rushing Phenomenon”. Everyone is suddenly looking for the same smart, bilingual, self-starting staff.

Recruitment: International companies are screaming (Japan Today)

An exclusive Japan Times' interview with Yukio Hatoyama, prime minister for nine months of the Democratic Party of Japan’s three years in power between 2009 and 2012. He discusses a range of issues, including Okinawa, the relationship between the Fukushima No. 1 disaster and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, and his proposal for the creation of an “East Asian EU.”

Hatoyama dreams of a Japan anchored within a united Asia (The Japan Times)

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