Web Directory

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

» BBC News - Sony Plans Massive Job Cuts
   The consumer electronics giant is to shed 13% of its workforce to combat its resurgent rivals and prop up profits.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3219667.stm

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

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

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

» Forbes - The Pride That Killed Sony
   Article stating that hubris caused plunging sales and profits, and led to a major restructuring.
   http://www.forbes.com/technology/personaltech/2003/11/05/cz_bf_1104sony.html

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

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

» Japan Country Analysis Brief
   A US Dept. of Energy report on Japan's energy sector, with information on oil, gas, coal, electricity and nuclear power industry.
   http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/japan.html

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

» Japan Rice Market
   Provides regularly updated news on Japanese rice, as well as monitoring current prices. With news archive.
   http://www.japan-rice.com/

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

» Making Some Sense of the Japanese Economy
   Offers some thoughts on what has been happening and how economists have viewed Japan's continuing economic woes.
   http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp94.html

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

» National Review: Setting Sun
   Hudson Institute economist Alan Reynolds argues that tax reform is crucial to reviving the Japanese economy.
   http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n13_v50/ai_20977850/

» Nikkei Net Interactive
   Daily financial news and information.
   http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/

» No More Games in Japan's Referee-Free Capitalism
   Argues that legal reforms are also needed for Japan's economic woes to end, but current structural reforms may worsen the situation.
   http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kaneko.html

» Revisiting the "Revisionists": The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Model
   Cato Institute essay exposing the shortcomings and failed predictions in Japan revisionist thinking.
   http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-003.html

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

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

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

» The Hidden Realities of Computer Industry in Japan
   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.
   http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/mybooks/okite/index-eng.html

» The Japan Investor
   Subscription based investor information for those interested in the Japanese market.
   http://www.japaninvestor.com/

» The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism
   Behind Japan's economic crisis lurks a social one. From The Atlantic Monthly.
   http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/98jun/japancap.htm

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