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This category is for sites on business and economic news in Japan.

Websites submitted here must be Japanese business news related and in English. Sites in Japanese should be submitted to the appropriate World/Japanese subcategory.

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Subcategories

• Nikkei

Resources in This Category

• Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp81.html
  Essay investigating Japan's current recessions and lack of reforms, from the Japan Policy Research Institute.

• BBC News - Sony Plans Massive Job Cuts

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3219667.stm
  The consumer electronics giant is to shed 13% of its workforce to combat its resurgent rivals and prop up profits.

• BBC News: The Hidden Face of Japan's Recession

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/audiovideo/programmes/crossing_continents/208036.stm
  30 minute radio program on growing poverty in Japan: as recession bites, growing numbers of homeless and starving men are on the streets.

• Bureaucratic Corruption in Japan

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp76.html
  Essay delves into corruption in Japan's government ministries and police.

• ExecutivePlanet.com: Japan

  http://www.executiveplanet.com/index.php?title=Japan
  Guide to business etiquette in Japan covering many aspects of doing business in Japan, including negotiating, entertaining, gift giving, and public behaviour.

• Forbes: The Panic Spreads

  http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0218/022.html
  Documents Japan's continuing economic decline and demonstrates Japan's industrial crisis is reaching Great Depression levels.

• J@pan Inc

  http://www.japaninc.com/
  Business magazine focusing on e-business, consumer products, and the changing economy.

• Japan Economic Foundation

  http://www.jef.or.jp/
  Homepage of JEF offering articles and back issues of the Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry.

• JapanConsuming: Monthly Newsletter

  http://www.japanconsuming.com/
  Analysis and reporting of Japan's consumer and retail markets to help overseas companies gain access to the Japanese market.

• Making Some Sense of the Japanese Economy

  http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp94.html
  Offers some thoughts on what has been happening and how economists have viewed Japan's continuing economic woes.

• NLI Research Institute

  http://www.nli-research.co.jp/
  Publishes online studies and research on economic and socioeconomic affairs of Japan.

• No More Games in Japan's Referee-Free Capitalism

  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kaneko.html
  Argues that legal reforms are also needed for Japan's economic woes to end, but current structural reforms may worsen the situation.

• Sarjam

  http://www.sarjam.com/
  Japan's satellite cable broadband internet information site.

• Saving Japan

  http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/jpage.html
  A collection of essays by MIT economist Paul Krugman on the Japanese economy.

• Terrie.com

  http://www.terrie.com/
  Weekly news and information about technology and e-business in Japan.

• The Hidden Realities of Computer Industry in Japan

  http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/mybooks/okite/index-eng.html
  An online book from a long term Japanese computer engineer that while the products may be hi-tech, the industry in Japan is hopelessly backward.

• The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism

  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98jun/japancap.htm
  Behind Japan's economic crisis lurks a social one. From The Atlantic Monthly.

• The Tokyo News

  http://thetokyonews.net/
  Japan news headlines, world news and financial markets. Links to newspapers, weather, travel, hotels and a map of Tokyo.

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