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Business Week - Japan: The System That Soured   - Book excerpt of Richard Katz explaining what went wrong with Japan's economic miracle.

Accounting News in Japan - Provides information about news in accounting standards in Japan.

Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform - Essay investigating Japan's current recessions and lack of reforms, from the Japan Policy Research Institute.

BBC News: The Hidden Face of Japan's Recession - 30 minute radio program on growing poverty in Japan: as recession bites, growing numbers of homeless and starving men are on the streets.

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

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

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

Explaining Japan's Recession - 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.

Forbes: The Panic Spreads - Documents Japan's continuing economic decline and demonstrates Japan's industrial crisis is reaching Great Depression levels.

The Hidden Realities of Computer Industry in Japan - 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.

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

Japan Economic Foundation - Homepage of JEF offering articles and back issues of the Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry.

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

The Japan Investor - Subscription based investor information for those interested in the Japanese market.

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

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

Japanese State - Market Relations - 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.

J@pan Inc - Business magazine focusing on e-business, consumer products, and the changing economy.

National Review: Setting Sun - Hudson Institute economist Alan Reynolds argues that tax reform is crucial to reviving the Japanese economy.

Nikkei Net Interactive - Daily financial news and information.

NLI Research Institute - Publishes online studies and research on economic and socioeconomic affairs of Japan.

No More Games in Japan's Referee-Free Capitalism - Argues that legal reforms are also needed for Japan's economic woes to end, but current structural reforms may worsen the situation.

Revisiting the "Revisionists": The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Model - Cato Institute essay exposing the shortcomings and failed predictions in Japan revisionist thinking.

Sarjam - Japan's satellite cable broadband internet information site.

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

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

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

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

Forbes - The Pride That Killed Sony - Article stating that hubris caused plunging sales and profits, and led to a major restructuring. (November 5, 2003)

BBC News - Sony Plans Massive Job Cuts - The consumer electronics giant is to shed 13% of its workforce to combat its resurgent rivals and prop up profits. (October 28, 2003)

Making Some Sense of the Japanese Economy - Offers some thoughts on what has been happening and how economists have viewed Japan's continuing economic woes. (September, 2003)

The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism - Behind Japan's economic crisis lurks a social one. From The Atlantic Monthly. (June 1, 1998)