Provides information about news in accounting standards in Japan.

Essay investigating Japan's current recessions and lack of reforms, from the Japan Policy Research Institute.

The consumer electronics giant is to shed 13% of its workforce to combat its resurgent rivals and prop up profits.

30 minute radio program on growing poverty in Japan: as recession bites, growing numbers of homeless and starving men are on the streets.

News and business information on Japan's biotechnology industry, pharmaceuticals, bioventures, medical, and technology transfer resources. Funded by the Japanese government.

Essay delves into corruption in Japan's government ministries and police.

Book excerpt of Richard Katz explaining what went wrong with Japan's economic miracle.

Guide to business etiquette in Japan covering many aspects of doing business in Japan, including negotiating, entertaining, gift giving, and public behaviour.

Economic essay asserting that both Keynesian and Monetarist explanations and solutions to Japan's economic stagnation failed and an Austrian theory of the business cycle provides the explanation.

Japan's Fair Trade Commission's proposed overhaul of the country's anti-monopoly law - the most radical in more than 25 years - is steadfastly opposed by Keidanren, Japan's most influential business lobby.

Faced by big business opposition, Japan's Fair Trade Commission postpones strengthening its anti-monopoly laws.

Article stating that hubris caused plunging sales and profits, and led to a major restructuring.

Documents Japan's continuing economic decline and demonstrates Japan's industrial crisis is reaching Great Depression levels.

Business magazine focusing on e-business, consumer products, and the changing economy.

A US Dept. of Energy report on Japan's energy sector, with information on oil, gas, coal, electricity and nuclear power industry.

Homepage of JEF offering articles and back issues of the Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry.

A monthly newsletter devoted to covering new business activity in Japan. With online archive.

Provides regularly updated news on Japanese rice, as well as monitoring current prices. With news archive.

Analysis and reporting of Japan's consumer and retail markets to help overseas companies gain access to the Japanese market.

Short college essay on different views of the Japanese market and system, and argues that the market has not been in a purely subservient role in Japan.

Offers some thoughts on what has been happening and how economists have viewed Japan's continuing economic woes.

Hudson Institute economist Alan Reynolds argues that tax reform is crucial to reviving the Japanese economy.

Daily financial news and information.

Publishes online studies and research on economic and socioeconomic affairs of Japan.

Argues that legal reforms are also needed for Japan's economic woes to end, but current structural reforms may worsen the situation.

Cato Institute essay exposing the shortcomings and failed predictions in Japan revisionist thinking.

Japan's satellite cable broadband internet information site.

A collection of essays by MIT economist Paul Krugman on the Japanese economy.

Weekly news and information about technology and e-business in Japan.

Introduces information related to innovative technology and management, at times unique to Japanese culture, as well as the latest news concerning textiles in general.

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.

Subscription based investor information for those interested in the Japanese market.

Behind Japan's economic crisis lurks a social one. From The Atlantic Monthly.

Japan news headlines, world news and financial markets. Links to newspapers, weather, travel, hotels and a map of Tokyo.

A Washington Post article on pork barrel politics preventing Japan's weak economy from recovering.

Gives brief overview on differences in working in a Japanese company environment.