Japan, faced with rising China, shifts its strategy
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That will provide a blow to China economy, despite some nationalistic Chinese wish to see this happens. As for Vietnam, we welcome Japanese investments, the more Japan moves to Vietnam, the better for us.
What if Japan takes its investments and know how out of China?[/QUOTE
Where will you find another 1,3 billion big market for japanese electronics, cars etc?
That is rich, coming from a russian.
What if Japan takes its investments and know how out of China?[/QUOTE
Where will you find another 1,3 billion big market for japanese electronics, cars etc?
That is rich, coming from a russian.
That is why nobody in the region will make rapid movements
P.S. Japan exports to China in 2011 was 195 mlrd of dollars.
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Toyota sees Japan sales dropping 20 percent in 2013: media
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) expects Japan vehicle sales to fall by a fifth next year, in part due to the end of government tax incentives for fuel-efficient automobiles, domestic media reported, adding to the pain from a decline in China sales.
Japanese vehicle sales account for 30 percent of Toyota's total sales volumes, and industry data shows that since the end of government tax incentives for purchases of fuel-efficient cars in mid-September, domestic new vehicle sales have fallen each of the past three months.
Toyota has decided to set its 2013 domestic sales target for Toyota-brand cars at 1.36 million vehicles, down from its 1.67 million target for this year, the Mid-Japan Economist, a regional newspaper, said on its website without citing sources.
It noted that a backlog of orders following supply-chain disruptions from last year's earthquake and tsunami had inflated sales this year.
full story: Toyota sees Japan sales dropping 20 percent in 2013: media | Reuters
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Long road to recovery for Toyota's Chinese sales: report
(Reuters) - A high-ranking Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) executive believes that it will take the automaker a year to recover from the effects of a diplomatic row between Japan and China, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday.
Calls for boycotts of Japanese goods in response to a territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea took a heavy toll of Toyota's sales in China, falling 50 percent in September and 44 percent in October.
The decline slowed in November, with a 22 percent year-on-year fall to 63,800 vehicles. However, Kyodo said that Hiroji Onishi, senior manager in charge of Toyota's Chinese operations, gave a grim outlook in a November 26 meeting with the company's labor union leaders.
"We have no choice but to believe it is going to be hard to regain the (pre-September) sales pace," Onishi was quoted as saying by Kyodo.
"Deducing from past incidents, it would likely take at least one year, and we are making all sorts of adjustments to our plans."
A Toyota spokesman declined to comment on Friday.
The company said at the start of this year that it aimed to sell 1 million cars a year in China.
Long road to recovery for Toyota's Chinese sales: report | Reuters
Toyota is only one of many Japanese multinational companies that are having troubles.
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) expects Japan vehicle sales to fall by a fifth next year, in part due to the end of government tax incentives for fuel-efficient automobiles, domestic media reported, adding to the pain from a decline in China sales.
Japanese vehicle sales account for 30 percent of Toyota's total sales volumes, and industry data shows that since the end of government tax incentives for purchases of fuel-efficient cars in mid-September, domestic new vehicle sales have fallen each of the past three months.
Toyota has decided to set its 2013 domestic sales target for Toyota-brand cars at 1.36 million vehicles, down from its 1.67 million target for this year, the Mid-Japan Economist, a regional newspaper, said on its website without citing sources.
It noted that a backlog of orders following supply-chain disruptions from last year's earthquake and tsunami had inflated sales this year.
full story: Toyota sees Japan sales dropping 20 percent in 2013: media | Reuters
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Long road to recovery for Toyota's Chinese sales: report
(Reuters) - A high-ranking Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) executive believes that it will take the automaker a year to recover from the effects of a diplomatic row between Japan and China, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday.
Calls for boycotts of Japanese goods in response to a territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea took a heavy toll of Toyota's sales in China, falling 50 percent in September and 44 percent in October.
The decline slowed in November, with a 22 percent year-on-year fall to 63,800 vehicles. However, Kyodo said that Hiroji Onishi, senior manager in charge of Toyota's Chinese operations, gave a grim outlook in a November 26 meeting with the company's labor union leaders.
"We have no choice but to believe it is going to be hard to regain the (pre-September) sales pace," Onishi was quoted as saying by Kyodo.
"Deducing from past incidents, it would likely take at least one year, and we are making all sorts of adjustments to our plans."
A Toyota spokesman declined to comment on Friday.
The company said at the start of this year that it aimed to sell 1 million cars a year in China.
Long road to recovery for Toyota's Chinese sales: report | Reuters
Toyota is only one of many Japanese multinational companies that are having troubles.
And Chinese People see your nation as a country of original monkey
Don't be angry,its suit four VN
That would be suicidal. You're implying that China lack the ability to replicate Japanese know-how and the capital to invest in its own country.
Both assumptions have been proven wrong in spades in the past couple of decades.
Imperialistic? No. China merely wishes to reclaim its territory lost to Western and Japanese invasions throughout the last hundred years.
Though I can see why Russians would be nervous. Afterall, Russians claim large parts of Manchurian lands as their own and created Mongolia out of thin air.
Don't worry, as far as China is concerned, the land disputes with Russia are settled. Russians really should be more worried about the west fomenting revolution and unrest in their lands to support their agendas. Take a look at the Middle East today. That template is coming to Russia soon (propaganda -> unrest -> revolution). You won't have to worry about China for at least the next 100 years.
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No argument, so you resort to insulting? what a shame for China, and Chinese people!
BTW our National Assembly chairman just visited the Emperor of Japan, with our people best wishes for a stronger tie with Japan. I think it is time that Vietnam and Japan join forces to take on China aggression.
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A lighter post than the usual blood thirsty bashing between 2 national.
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012
Indonesia, Japan seek partnership
Kyodo
Seeking new ideas: Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (left) visits the venue for the Indonesia-Japan cooperation in innovation convention in Bandung, Indonesia, on Sunday. KYODO
BANDUNG, Indonesia — Stakeholders in Indonesia and Japan called for establishing a strategic partnership in innovation to face the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
The call was made Sunday at the conclusion of a three-day convention on Indonesia-Japan cooperation in innovation in the West Java capital of Bandung.
Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Indonesian Vice President Boediono said in their keynote speeches that correct strategies and measures involving politicians, scholars, business circles, government officials and other people, are needed to foster innovation.
"It is important to establish a system . . . backed by long-term strategies and public support," Fukuda told participants at the venue, Bandung Institute of Technology, one of Indonesia's most prestigious universities.
As examples, he referred to tech giants Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc., which can continue to innovate as they are supported by "angels" in the legal and taxation systems.
"Secondly . . . to create innovation and bring it to the production level, it is necessary to have small and medium-size enterprises that master basic technology with a high spirit of creativity although their scale is small," Fukuda said.
He further stressed the importance of creating good education policies, referring to Japan's experience in building "kosen," a five-year associate degree program available after junior high school that focuses on providing creative and productive practical skills.
According to the president of the Japan-Indonesia Association, about 300 Indonesian students have attended kosen in Japan since 1982.
Fukuda particularly advised the Indonesian government to provide more attention to students with social sciences backgrounds instead of the natural sciences, because such students can bring innovation into the business market.
In his speech, Boediono stressed that technological innovation is the primary determinant in the development of a nation, and that the main gateway for technology to enter daily lives is through investment.
"Indonesia clearly needs more entrepreneurs who are able to innovate. Therefore, I strongly endorse collaboration between Indonesia and Japan in entrepreneurship development," he said.
Indonesia is now entering a development phase that must count more on knowledge, innovation and creativity as the source of economic growth, he said, adding that in this phase, there will be many challenges.
To deal with them, productive cooperation with countries that are more advanced in technology is needed, the vice president said.
"Japan and Indonesia can benefit from this strong cooperation by expanding collaboration to create innovative products, processes and marketing in both countries," Boediono said.
"The challenge either for Indonesia or Japan is how to meet various opportunities to strengthen the ties between research institutions, business circles and the public in efforts to provide benefits for the two countries," he added.
Participants in the Indonesia-Japan Innovation Convention included scholars, businesspeople and government officials at the campus where one-third of its staff were trained in Japan or graduated from Japanese universities.
It was aimed at promoting innovative products of the two countries and improving joint collaboration in innovation among industrial circles, universities and research agencies.
Participants focused on eight innovation clusters: information and communications technology, sustainable energy, biotechnology and health, creative industries, transportation systems and infrastructure, materials, smart community and entrepreneurship, and policy.
On Sunday, the participants called on all stakeholders to establish an appropriate forum between Indonesia and Japan to facilitate dialogue and follow up on possible new cooperation or agreements.
Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2012
'Tako-yaki' shops take off in Indonesia
Kyodo
"Tako-yaki," a Japanese-style octopus dumpling, is booming in popularity in Indonesia, where the number of shops selling the snack has been rapidly increasing.
Having a ball: A worker at an Oishi-tako shop in Jakarta that specializes in "tako-yaki," a Japanese-style octopus dumpling, shows off her creations earlier this month. KYODO
The snack is particularly popular among children and young adults, many of whom say it's both easy to eat and "fashionable."
The founder of Oishi-tako, a shop based in eastern Jakarta that was launched in 2009, came across the Japanese snack via the Internet.
The chain now has 36 franchises around Indonesia.
Oishi-tako sells a single package containing four octopus dumplings for 10,000 rupiah (about ¥80.)
Another shop, known for its brand name Takoyaki Na, now operates 85 shops and plans to open at least another 15 next year.
Guess which article is my favorite?
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012
Indonesia, Japan seek partnership
Kyodo
Seeking new ideas: Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (left) visits the venue for the Indonesia-Japan cooperation in innovation convention in Bandung, Indonesia, on Sunday. KYODO
BANDUNG, Indonesia — Stakeholders in Indonesia and Japan called for establishing a strategic partnership in innovation to face the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
The call was made Sunday at the conclusion of a three-day convention on Indonesia-Japan cooperation in innovation in the West Java capital of Bandung.
Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Indonesian Vice President Boediono said in their keynote speeches that correct strategies and measures involving politicians, scholars, business circles, government officials and other people, are needed to foster innovation.
"It is important to establish a system . . . backed by long-term strategies and public support," Fukuda told participants at the venue, Bandung Institute of Technology, one of Indonesia's most prestigious universities.
As examples, he referred to tech giants Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc., which can continue to innovate as they are supported by "angels" in the legal and taxation systems.
"Secondly . . . to create innovation and bring it to the production level, it is necessary to have small and medium-size enterprises that master basic technology with a high spirit of creativity although their scale is small," Fukuda said.
He further stressed the importance of creating good education policies, referring to Japan's experience in building "kosen," a five-year associate degree program available after junior high school that focuses on providing creative and productive practical skills.
According to the president of the Japan-Indonesia Association, about 300 Indonesian students have attended kosen in Japan since 1982.
Fukuda particularly advised the Indonesian government to provide more attention to students with social sciences backgrounds instead of the natural sciences, because such students can bring innovation into the business market.
In his speech, Boediono stressed that technological innovation is the primary determinant in the development of a nation, and that the main gateway for technology to enter daily lives is through investment.
"Indonesia clearly needs more entrepreneurs who are able to innovate. Therefore, I strongly endorse collaboration between Indonesia and Japan in entrepreneurship development," he said.
Indonesia is now entering a development phase that must count more on knowledge, innovation and creativity as the source of economic growth, he said, adding that in this phase, there will be many challenges.
To deal with them, productive cooperation with countries that are more advanced in technology is needed, the vice president said.
"Japan and Indonesia can benefit from this strong cooperation by expanding collaboration to create innovative products, processes and marketing in both countries," Boediono said.
"The challenge either for Indonesia or Japan is how to meet various opportunities to strengthen the ties between research institutions, business circles and the public in efforts to provide benefits for the two countries," he added.
Participants in the Indonesia-Japan Innovation Convention included scholars, businesspeople and government officials at the campus where one-third of its staff were trained in Japan or graduated from Japanese universities.
It was aimed at promoting innovative products of the two countries and improving joint collaboration in innovation among industrial circles, universities and research agencies.
Participants focused on eight innovation clusters: information and communications technology, sustainable energy, biotechnology and health, creative industries, transportation systems and infrastructure, materials, smart community and entrepreneurship, and policy.
On Sunday, the participants called on all stakeholders to establish an appropriate forum between Indonesia and Japan to facilitate dialogue and follow up on possible new cooperation or agreements.
Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2012
'Tako-yaki' shops take off in Indonesia
Kyodo
"Tako-yaki," a Japanese-style octopus dumpling, is booming in popularity in Indonesia, where the number of shops selling the snack has been rapidly increasing.
Having a ball: A worker at an Oishi-tako shop in Jakarta that specializes in "tako-yaki," a Japanese-style octopus dumpling, shows off her creations earlier this month. KYODO
The snack is particularly popular among children and young adults, many of whom say it's both easy to eat and "fashionable."
The founder of Oishi-tako, a shop based in eastern Jakarta that was launched in 2009, came across the Japanese snack via the Internet.
The chain now has 36 franchises around Indonesia.
Oishi-tako sells a single package containing four octopus dumplings for 10,000 rupiah (about ¥80.)
Another shop, known for its brand name Takoyaki Na, now operates 85 shops and plans to open at least another 15 next year.
Guess which article is my favorite?
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Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012
Flag-wavers: Members of a rightist group Zaitokukai raise naval flags during a rally in Tokyo on Sep. 23. AFP-JIJI
Nationalism rears head ahead of poll
By HARUMI OZAWA
AFP-Jiji
Park Jeong Hun always found Japan a reasonable place to live, a place where, as a second-generation Korean, she rubbed along well with her neighbors. But when her nonprofit group tried to put on a dance to showcase their heritage in the cosmopolitan city of Nagoya, things unexpectedly turned ugly.
Municipal officials received a visit from two respectable-looking Japanese men proffering business cards, saying they were in the city to protest the mounting of Park's Korean dance event. Footage posted on the Internet shows the mask of civility soon slipping as the men let out a volley of racist abuse at a city official.
"I had to cancel the show for the children's safety," Park said afterward.
Observers say this kind of incident, though not typical, is becoming more common as a strain of robust nationalism grows in Japan.
Bruised by the territorial flare-up with China over the Senaku islets that Japan administers but both sides lay claim to, and a spat with South Korea over another bit of disputed real estate, the Seoul-controlled Takeshima Islands, the Japanese public is feeling less neighborly.
A recent government survey found that a record 81 percent of those polled expressed a negative view toward China, and only 18 percent voiced friendly feelings, down more than 8 percentage points year on year. Meanwhile, just 2 in 5 felt positively about South Korea, plunging 24 percent from 2011 and dipping below the 40 percent mark for the first time in 15 years.
And ahead of the Dec. 16 general election, mainstream political parties are rushing to accommodate this rising hawkishness and rightism.
Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is trotting out his China-bashing rhetoric after joining forces with the stridently populist Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, as they cross the country stumping for Nippon Ishin no Kai (Restoration Party of Japan), hoping to challenge the established political order.
Ishihara, Nippon Ishin's recently appointed leader, told journalists he wants to rewrite Japan's "ugly" Constitution anathema to many who cherish its pacifist Article 9.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is also back at the helm of the Liberal Democratic Party, which is pushing an increasingly conservative agenda and pledging to examine the issue of posting officials on the Senkakus to bolster Japan's control of disputed islets, which China calls Diaoyu.
Abe has vowed not to compromise "even 1 mm" over what he views as Japan's sovereign territory, and says he would seek to boost the status of the well-funded Self-Defense Forces and let them engage in collective self-defense another postwar taboo.
His call to also re-brand the SDF as the National Defense Force (Kokubo-gun) is a bit of semantic slight of hand that translates poorly, but indicates the direction he's headed in: a constitutional rewrite.
Despite polls showing Abe's LDP winning the largest number of seats in the Lower House poll, the final outcome still appears set to be an unpredictable affair with most commentators predicting no single party will secure an outright majority.
But whatever postelection coalition emerges is unlikely to take a dovish tack, observers say.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has cautioned against the headlong rush to the right in an interview with the Financial Times, saying, "This kind of (ultranationalist) atmosphere or mood is emerging . . . and it's possible that tough talks could captivate the public, but that would be the most dangerous thing for the nation."
Law enforcement officers say they are seeing a rise in membership of extremist groups, and more significantly a change in the kind of people joining up.
Takuji Norikane, who heads a division keeping tabs on political extremists for the National Police Agency, says old-style rightists in their quasi-military uniforms and black vans blaring martial music were easy to spot.
"Nowadays, we have these rightwing citizens' groups that take to the streets wearing normal clothes," Norikane said. "Such groups with rightwing ideologies are active across a wider geographical region of the country, and the number joining their ranks is swelling."
Norikane said many of these groups clothe "extremely nationalistic and xenophobic ideas" in the language of civil rights. One group, which goes by the name Zaitokukai, uses the Internet to organize demonstrations at which people gather to shout slogans calling for immigrant "roaches" to "die."
Journalist Koichi Yasuda said that with more than 12,000 users, the group's site is a breeding ground for opinions that would not look out of place among rightist fringe movements in Europe.
"They have a similar nature to the neo-Nazis in Europe," said Yasuda, author of the prize-winning book "Netto to Aikoku" ("Internet and Patriotism"), noting many members are seemingly ordinary people such as businessmen or housewives. "The forums they use see a lot of calls for 'immigrants' to leave the country."
Takeshi Nakajima, associate professor of politics at Hokkaido University, says a mood of neoliberalism is rising in Japan that is not dissimilar to the tea party movement in the United States.
"Neoliberalism advocates a political agenda of small government and self-responsibility," Nakajima said, citing the rise of Abe and Hashimoto. "A natural result of this is that it widens the economic gap, and thus fuels nationalism."
Flag-wavers: Members of a rightist group Zaitokukai raise naval flags during a rally in Tokyo on Sep. 23. AFP-JIJI
Nationalism rears head ahead of poll
By HARUMI OZAWA
AFP-Jiji
Park Jeong Hun always found Japan a reasonable place to live, a place where, as a second-generation Korean, she rubbed along well with her neighbors. But when her nonprofit group tried to put on a dance to showcase their heritage in the cosmopolitan city of Nagoya, things unexpectedly turned ugly.
Municipal officials received a visit from two respectable-looking Japanese men proffering business cards, saying they were in the city to protest the mounting of Park's Korean dance event. Footage posted on the Internet shows the mask of civility soon slipping as the men let out a volley of racist abuse at a city official.
"I had to cancel the show for the children's safety," Park said afterward.
Observers say this kind of incident, though not typical, is becoming more common as a strain of robust nationalism grows in Japan.
Bruised by the territorial flare-up with China over the Senaku islets that Japan administers but both sides lay claim to, and a spat with South Korea over another bit of disputed real estate, the Seoul-controlled Takeshima Islands, the Japanese public is feeling less neighborly.
A recent government survey found that a record 81 percent of those polled expressed a negative view toward China, and only 18 percent voiced friendly feelings, down more than 8 percentage points year on year. Meanwhile, just 2 in 5 felt positively about South Korea, plunging 24 percent from 2011 and dipping below the 40 percent mark for the first time in 15 years.
And ahead of the Dec. 16 general election, mainstream political parties are rushing to accommodate this rising hawkishness and rightism.
Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is trotting out his China-bashing rhetoric after joining forces with the stridently populist Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, as they cross the country stumping for Nippon Ishin no Kai (Restoration Party of Japan), hoping to challenge the established political order.
Ishihara, Nippon Ishin's recently appointed leader, told journalists he wants to rewrite Japan's "ugly" Constitution anathema to many who cherish its pacifist Article 9.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is also back at the helm of the Liberal Democratic Party, which is pushing an increasingly conservative agenda and pledging to examine the issue of posting officials on the Senkakus to bolster Japan's control of disputed islets, which China calls Diaoyu.
Abe has vowed not to compromise "even 1 mm" over what he views as Japan's sovereign territory, and says he would seek to boost the status of the well-funded Self-Defense Forces and let them engage in collective self-defense another postwar taboo.
His call to also re-brand the SDF as the National Defense Force (Kokubo-gun) is a bit of semantic slight of hand that translates poorly, but indicates the direction he's headed in: a constitutional rewrite.
Despite polls showing Abe's LDP winning the largest number of seats in the Lower House poll, the final outcome still appears set to be an unpredictable affair with most commentators predicting no single party will secure an outright majority.
But whatever postelection coalition emerges is unlikely to take a dovish tack, observers say.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has cautioned against the headlong rush to the right in an interview with the Financial Times, saying, "This kind of (ultranationalist) atmosphere or mood is emerging . . . and it's possible that tough talks could captivate the public, but that would be the most dangerous thing for the nation."
Law enforcement officers say they are seeing a rise in membership of extremist groups, and more significantly a change in the kind of people joining up.
Takuji Norikane, who heads a division keeping tabs on political extremists for the National Police Agency, says old-style rightists in their quasi-military uniforms and black vans blaring martial music were easy to spot.
"Nowadays, we have these rightwing citizens' groups that take to the streets wearing normal clothes," Norikane said. "Such groups with rightwing ideologies are active across a wider geographical region of the country, and the number joining their ranks is swelling."
Norikane said many of these groups clothe "extremely nationalistic and xenophobic ideas" in the language of civil rights. One group, which goes by the name Zaitokukai, uses the Internet to organize demonstrations at which people gather to shout slogans calling for immigrant "roaches" to "die."
Journalist Koichi Yasuda said that with more than 12,000 users, the group's site is a breeding ground for opinions that would not look out of place among rightist fringe movements in Europe.
"They have a similar nature to the neo-Nazis in Europe," said Yasuda, author of the prize-winning book "Netto to Aikoku" ("Internet and Patriotism"), noting many members are seemingly ordinary people such as businessmen or housewives. "The forums they use see a lot of calls for 'immigrants' to leave the country."
Takeshi Nakajima, associate professor of politics at Hokkaido University, says a mood of neoliberalism is rising in Japan that is not dissimilar to the tea party movement in the United States.
"Neoliberalism advocates a political agenda of small government and self-responsibility," Nakajima said, citing the rise of Abe and Hashimoto. "A natural result of this is that it widens the economic gap, and thus fuels nationalism."
