What's online this week at J@pan Inc magazine:<br><br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/Nikkei_rebound" target="_blank">Half past dead</a><br><br>About a year ago today, I published a weekly Nikkei outlook discussing
<br>whether the Nikkei was headed to 13,000 or back to 12,000. Suffice to
<br>say that much has happened since then...<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/node/3981" target="_blank">Out of the rubble</a><br>
<br>By Timm Tuttle<br><br>The Aneha housing safety standard fiasco means a new insurance system <br>
for houses, but with only a handful of insurers designated so far, will they <br>be able to handle the workload?<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/node/3977" target="_blank">Japan - The Lost Quarter Century</a><br><br>By Edward Hugh<br><br>Despite the fact that Japanese Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano said
Friday <br>that February's fall in the so called "core-core" consumer price
index doesn't <br>mean Japan is back in deflation, few are ready to accept
his judgement. Data <br>released on Friday showed a 0.1 percent on-year
fall in the core-core index <br>(that is the basic index with food and
energy stripped out), while the core <br>consumer price index (which only
excludes food) was flat from a year earlier..<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/node/3975" target="_blank">The End of the Beginning</a><br>
<br>By Tobias Harris<br><br>Ozawa Ichiro indicated, in a <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/japan/2009/03/25/ozawa-wipes-away-tears-but-not-doubts/" target="_blank">tearful</a>
press conference Tuesday evening, that he <br>will stay on as DPJ president
despite the indictment of his chief public secretary <br>— but Ozawa's
statement may have only been the end of the beginning of the final <br>act
of Ozawa's long career...<br>