A ministry think tank released that more than half of single Japanese men and women aged 18-34 have no partner.
Most Japanese SI firms are looking at going abroad in some shape or form.
Since the announcement there have been over 100 million searches on Google for terms relating to free tickets to Japan.
Given what is happening, in a way Olympus is the magnitude 9 earthquake of the commercial world.
Now the rumors circulating around town are that Olympus could have been the target of Yakuza extortion.
Major manufacturers hit by the floods in Thailand can bring their Thai workforces to Japan for up to 6 months.
An amazing story is unfolding before us here in Japan involving over a billion dollars of potential fraud.
The ratio of employees supporting pensioners has fallen from 40:1 in 1979 to just 2.5:1 in 2009 -- an unsustainable situation.
Over the last 9 months the amount of foreign M&As being done by Japanese companies has been remarkable.
High domestic costs and a dwindling market are the drivers for Japanese companies to move abroad.
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