Estimates are that the Japan will spend around JPY25trn to re-establish communities and businesses.
Just-in-Time production, single suppliers, and monopolies do not work well with natural disasters.
What will be the real economic impact of the quake and the nuclear crisis in particular on the country?
Japanese mull the nation's post-quake economic future.
Most everyone we know wanted to know about one thing: radiation and whether it's coming to Tokyo.
At first we thought the shaking was turbulence from a passing train, but then it became obvious that it was an earthquake.
PM Naoto Kan announced to bring Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.
External certified directors instead of shareholder activism for more professional corporate governance in Japan.
Rents in Tokyo are dropping and in January we moved our office to a new location in Roppongi.
Only 70% of college graduates had found jobs by December 1st, and less than half of junior college students have done so.
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