Even after a massive stimulus package was proposed and launched by the new Japanese government, the country says it is not completely ready to stop the spending just yet. If you do not remember or know little about what happened, their exports basically collapsed in 2008 due to their very weak financial market. Japan is [...]

Now that the 2010 Winter Olympics are closing up, Japan has struggled to win gold. Their big hope, Mao Asada fell very short when Kim Yuna put up a record breaking long program to ensure her of the gold medal. It can be tough for some athletes in some countries to go home with less [...]

If you pay any attention to the news at all, you may have seen that Japan has really been struggling with anti-whaling activists at their presence in the waters near Antarctica and beyond. Under agreement from the international community and governing bodies, Japan is apparently allowing 6 whaling vessels to bring in whales caught and [...]

Japan relies heavily on how well the manufacturers in their country perform. Just like many places, if they fail to meet quality standards expected around the world, then there would be very few who would trust them to produce goods for them. With Toyota struggling to answer the call in getting the gas pedals fixed [...]

What is consumer confidence? Well basically it is that buyers of goods are confident that if they purchase certain items from certain companies that they will be confident that the product they are receiving will be a good one. It means you trust certain brands and feel more comfortable buying them if you can.
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It has been 50 years now in 2010 since the U.S. and Japan first reached their security alliance. This alliance was a huge deal considering the two were at war during World War II. On that anniversary both sides might want to look into ways that they can strengthen the alliance. Certainly both sides do [...]

Japan has high hopes in the year 2010. First they hope to do well in the Winter Olympic Games coming up. They have a huge presence there and expect a lot out of their athletes. They have many top athletes in several events like women’s figure skating. It will be a tough go for them [...]