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Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform - http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp81.html
Essay investigating Japan's current recessions and lack of reforms, from the Japan Policy Research Institute.

BBC News - Sony Plans Massive Job Cuts - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3219667.stm
The consumer electronics giant is to shed 13% of its workforce to combat its resurgent rivals and prop up profits.

BBC News: The Hidden Face of Japan's Recession - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/audiovideo/programmes/crossing_continents/208036.stm
30 minute radio program on growing poverty in Japan: as recession bites, growing numbers of homeless and starving men are on the streets.

Bureaucratic Corruption in Japan - http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp76.html
Essay delves into corruption in Japan's government ministries and police.

Business Week - Japan: The System That Soured - http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/katz.htm
Book excerpt of Richard Katz explaining what went wrong with Japan's economic miracle.

ExecutivePlanet.com: Japan - http://www.executiveplanet.com/index.php?title=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 - http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1099
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 Pride That Killed Sony - http://www.forbes.com/technology/personaltech/2003/11/05/cz_bf_1104sony.html
Article stating that hubris caused plunging sales and profits, and led to a major restructuring.

Forbes: The Panic Spreads - http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0218/022.html
Documents Japan's continuing economic decline and demonstrates Japan's industrial crisis is reaching Great Depression levels.

http://www.sarjam.com/ - http://www.sarjam.com/
Japan's satellite cable broadband internet information site.

J@pan Inc - http://www.japaninc.com/
Business magazine focusing on e-business, consumer products, and the changing economy.

Japan Country Analysis Brief - http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/japan.html
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 - http://www.jef.or.jp/
Homepage of JEF offering articles and back issues of the Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry.

Japan Entrepreneur Report - http://www.japanentrepreneur.com/
A monthly newsletter devoted to covering new business activity in Japan. With online archive.

Japan Rice Market - http://www.japan-rice.com/
Provides regularly updated news on Japanese rice, as well as monitoring current prices. With news archive.

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

Making Some Sense of the Japanese Economy - http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp94.html
Offers some thoughts on what has been happening and how economists have viewed Japan's continuing economic woes.

National Review: Setting Sun - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n13_v50/ai_20977850/
Hudson Institute economist Alan Reynolds argues that tax reform is crucial to reviving the Japanese economy.

Nikkei Net Interactive - http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/
Daily financial news and information.

NLI Research Institute - http://www.nli-research.co.jp/
Publishes online studies and research on economic and socioeconomic affairs of Japan.

No More Games in Japan's Referee-Free Capitalism - http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Kaneko.html
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 - http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-003.html
Cato Institute essay exposing the shortcomings and failed predictions in Japan revisionist thinking.

Saving Japan - http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/jpage.html
A collection of essays by MIT economist Paul Krugman on the Japanese economy.

Terrie.com - http://www.terrie.com/
Weekly news and information about technology and e-business in Japan.

Textileinfo.com - http://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 Hidden Realities of Computer Industry in Japan - http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/mybooks/okite/index-eng.html
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.

The Japan Investor - http://www.japaninvestor.com/
Subscription based investor information for those interested in the Japanese market.

The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism - http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/98jun/japancap.htm
Behind Japan's economic crisis lurks a social one. From The Atlantic Monthly.

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

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