A weak domestic econmoy has encouraged Japanese businesses to exapnd abroad.\u00a0 Japanese investment in Southeast Asia doubled to $24 billion last year.<\/p>\n
Jaan focused on the automotive and electronic sectors of Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore during the 1980s and 90s.\u00a0 japan moved its focus to China’s cheap laobor market at the end of the century.\u00a0 But now relations between Japan and China have soured and Southeast Asis looks good again.<\/p>\n
QE and newly created money under Shinzo Abe’s policy has left Japan with money to invest abroad.\u00a0 But if this policy changes, that market will dry up.\u00a0 Abe wnats Japanese firms to invest more at home.\u00a0 A weak yen makes it possible to do this.\u00a0 Canon is trying to shift production back to Japan, but Mitsubishi is building a new plant in Indonesia.\u00a0 Impovements in corporate governancce have forced Japanese firms to look for profits they overlooked in the past.<\/p>\n
Japan risks becoming a rentier economy, living off profits made in other countries and failing to getbroad-based wage growth at home.<\/p>\n
A weak domestic econmoy has encouraged Japanese businesses to exapnd abroad.\u00a0 Japanese investment in Southeast Asia doubled to $24 billion last year. Jaan focused on the automotive and electronic sectors of Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore during the 1980s and 90s.\u00a0 … Continue reading ![\"Japan](\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Japan-Builds-in-Southeast-Asia-131x300.jpg\")
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