In “Hollowing Out, Tokyo Style,” FT Alphaville’s Gwen Robinson does a fine job of capturing an ongoing, and now accelerating human resources conundrum. While it seems like there’s no shortage lately of fake Japundits (not to be confused with the real Japundit, who is simply trying to keep it real on the cultural front) […]

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Daily J will be on indenfinite hiatus, with possible periodic posts/updates. The links, bookshelf and publications will remain available. There will be downtime in early-mid January due to server-related matters. Thanks for your support and best wishes in 2008!

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The Wall Street Journal’s Asialinks daily view includes the following excerpt:
At the same time [referring to an finance professor’s commentary on how stricter bank capital requirements may in fact compel Beijing to revalue the yuan faster], China’s foreign-exchange regulator increased the total quota for foreign companies to invest in the domestic capital market to $30 […]

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We’re back after a week of unexpected downtime due to a series of domain/hosting-related snafus. Daily Nikkei summaries and the Weekly Nikkei Outlook will resume in the coming week.

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Haven’t heard of D&M Holdings? Well, then maybe you’ve heard of D&M’s premium audio brands: McIntosh, Marantz, Denon, Boston Acoustics and more!
D&M trades on the Tokyo Exchange, TOPIX-1: 6735.
Shares of D&M surged 14% to Y407 intra-day Monday on a Daiwa Institute of Research upgrade to a “1″ from a “2″ with a target share price […]

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The following is a schedule of fiscal Q2 earnings release dates for Japanese stocks focused on those with ADRs. The list has been updated to include earnings dates for some that were previously unavailable.

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Volkswagen has applied to delist from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, citing low trading volume and its plans to also delist from some European exchanges. This continues the TSE’s trend of losing (and not being able to replace, at least for the time being) overseas listings. There will now be only 25 foreign companies listed on […]

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Breaking Open Japan, by George Feifer was recommended for weekend and October reading in a post on Friday. Figured it’s worth posting some modern data as food for thought from an Economist article published over the summer.
A few stats for you from the Aug. 18 edition of The Economist’s article entitled “Gaijin at the gates”:

Japan’s […]

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Just picked up the following books:
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, by James Mann
Breaking Open Japan, by George Feifer
The book on China is short, about 110 pages, but is worth the read for the perspective, especially if you consume a lot of U.S.-based news.
Haven’t started the book on Commodore Perry and […]

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Markets were closed in Japan Monday for a national holiday. The big news for the moment is the election of Yasuo Fukuda to replace Shinzo Abe as prime minister. Below is an abstract from FT Alphaville’s 6am Cut. There were only two choices, so no chance of a real surprise, thus the market […]

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