Lucky Peach’s first issue, the ramen issue, explains why you shouldn’t write off Japan as a culture or an economy
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To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Some details about the long road back for the Japanese economy
We are starting to get specific reports from individual companies in Japan that fill in some of the details on how long any economic recovery will take.
The disaster in Japan will accelerate the hollowing out of Japanese manufacturing
One long-term consequence of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan will be to make Japanese manufacturing look more like that in the rest of the world.
Is investor sentiment wrong about Japan?
Japanese stocks soared today to their highest level in nine months on forecasts of higher economic growth. Of course, the higher forecasts of economic growth were for the United States.
S&P cuts its credit rating on Japan for first time in 9 years
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The news driving stocks this morning comes from Japan where, overnight, the Bank of Japan announced that it would pursue a “virtually zero” interest rate policy and implement its own version of quantitative easing by setting up a five trillion yen fund to buy government bonds and other debt. The bank set its overnight call rate at 0% to 0.1%, the lowest since 2006.
Resumption of yen’s gains may force Japan to intervene again rather than admit failure
After an initial drop to a one-month low on September 15, the yen is now up 1% since the government intervened in order to drive down its price. The Japanese government put off intervening in the currency markets for so long that traders believe it now has no choice but to attempt again to weaken the yen. Abandoning intervention now would brand the policy a failure and remove any restraint on traders.
