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Japan's Media Industry

This report analyses Japan's US$ 350 billion media markets. Japan's newspapers have the largest circulation in the world, and Japan continuous to drive many media innovations, such as keitai novels: novels written on mobile phones for mobile phones. New: now includes TV group financials.
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Korean Communications Conference:
"Ubiquitous networks for disasters"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, COEX Seoul,
May 12, 2011, 16:00-18:00
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American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ), Tokyo:
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos Effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, Tokyo Westin Hotel, July 12, 2010, 12:00-14:00

Embassy of Sweden (Tokyo):
"The beauty of Japan's Galapagos effect - and how to go beyond"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Tokyo, May 19, 2010, 18:30

NIST, Washington DC:
"Will cash become obsolete? Next-next generation electronic and mobile payments in Japan"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,

NIST, Washington DC:
"Understanding Ludwig Boltzmann"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Washington (DC), April 21, 2010,

MIT Enterprise Forum:
"Next generation Electronic Payments Solutions"
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol, in Boston (MA), April 19, 2010,
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02. Changes and new opportunities

"Lost ten years" followed by Prime Minister Koizumi's government cause changes

Japan's "bubble economy" of the 1980's a period of denial followed with hopes that share prices and real estate prices would jump back to bubble-time levels and continue their bubble-style rise. This denial was a major factor for the "lost decade" which enabled Prime Minister Koizumi to reinforce reforms of Japan's government, legal and economic structure. After the end of Prime Minister Koizumi's government the pace of reforme slowed down considerably, however was not reversed as some voices demanded. These changes create new opportunities for many parties, including industrial companies and investment funds. There are several other factors which drive change, such as the globalization of the economy and the internet - which was not planned at all by the Japanese government, but imposed on Japan as a fait-acompli.

Merger and Aquisition (M&A) opportunities

The volume of Mergers and Aquisitions is rising in Japan, and is larger than often assumed: the volume of M&A in Japan is on a similar level as for example in Germany. The lions share of M&A is within Japan: Japanese companies acquiring or merging with other Japanese companies. One of the largest acquisitions of a Japanese corporation by a foreign corporation this year (2008) was Israel's Iscar acquiring Japanese Tungaloy.

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