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January 2002

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Relationship between China and Japan and its trend
Japan and China relationship will be more interactive as the time pass.
As the china became giant developer in current world, Japanese business started to have a fear which come from danger of being "hollowed out". It was the truth last decade.
 Even though the fact Japan is economic power house, China is giant developer and these two country is right next each other, the relationship had never been getting along. There were obvious reason behind this fact: First attitude conflict: Japan had seen China through pathetically down cast eyes. Drawn by cheap labor, a growing number of Japanese have hasted to have their products manufactured in China. And China found that Japanese attitude stack up. China also had hate toward Japan regarding world war two. Second, Chinese conservative party was so strong that there was no way to interact with Japan. In Japan side, Japan has not cleared issue from world war two yet.
Whenever a problem has emerged, the bilateral economic cooperation that worked naturally in the interest of both nation worked to prevent the relationship from being irreparably damaged.
However, due to the international business and its tremendous opportunity and advantage, a lot of business man both Chinese and Japanese start to corporate each other. Mixed team of Japan and Chinese business man are about to compete in Japan.
Finally, Asahi shinbun addressed, "We hope new ways will be found for Japanese and Chinese to get along over the next 30 years, building upon assessment of the developments that have taken place in the past 30 years."

Minimizing risk to investors by new trust product
Sumitomo Trust Baking Co is all set to offer this month a new from of trust product that target to provide a capital source for business at same time minimizing risk of investors by concentrating the intended recipient of the fund.
Sumitomo will try to make a deal the new trust product with and issue for Aiful Corp, which is one of the big consumer finance company and soliciting investment in the fund from other business in January. If the deal con be made, financial institution will consider extending the market for the program including general individual investors.
The new trust product is created by demand which come from market troubled by doubt about corporate debentures in the wake of the bankruptcy of Mycal corp: the big glossary store chain. And the company fell under weight of its heavy borrowing, but now the company come back. Under this circumstance which can not provide more secure service for business, new instrument such as the target trust could be a viable alternative.
Sumitomo Trust will accept funds from corporate investors and then place them with specific business borrower.
The term of the trusts will range from one to ten years. At first, investor will be required to institution that can put up at least 100 million yen at a time. Sumitomo Trust will invent future instrument for lower minimum investment and may make it available for individual investors.
The new instrument is similar to directly financed corporate debentures in which investors put their money with specific business. The difference between traditional corporate debenture and the new trust instrument come from where Sumitomo Trust will then invest the money only in the company, which strictly evaluated and screened by Sumitomo. Moreover Sumitomo Trust will disclose the list of company's condition at regular basis.

Power of Cellular Phone
Cellular phone used to be the tool for connecting the people. However, after cellular phone make internet service available, The role of the cellular phone is changing form connect the people to the place where people can get information such as trend. It is becoming big mass media just like TV. According to research from Dentetu Co, young generation with age 10-20 years old use twenty to thirty E-mail service of cellular phone everyday. The population who use cellular phone internet service has already been beyond   60000000. As this trend keep up, to use internet service of cellular phone will be the one of the crucial marketing tactics in Japan.

 

Source Nikkei, Assahi

 

 

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Date 1-02-02
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