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become all the rage, and the firms which are facilitating <br>such exports have names that you may have never heard of, <br>such as Navibird, Tenso.com, and rinkya, as well as a few <br>you will have heard of, such as Alibaba and Rakuten.<br>
<br>Japanese SMEs have always had problems exporting their <br>products. The reasons are many, but near the top of the <br>list are their inability to transact in languages other <br>than Japanese, an inability to market internationally, an <br>
addiction to letting others do their thinking for them and <br>working as subcontractors, and an unwillingness to modify <br>products so that they will appeal to a larger audience. The<br>root cause of these problems is probably a lack of profits <br>
over at least the last 15 years as well as a general fear <br>of the unknown.<br><br>Traditionally large and mid-size trading companies have <br>filled the gap of exporters for the nation's manufacturers.<br>However, as China has risen, these trading firms have found<br>
it easier to do business with Chinese manufacturers than <br>with the folks back home, so this has left a hole for <br>manufacturer representation, a hole which has gotten more <br>obvious over the last 2-3 years. Although up to 5% of all <br>
online shopping at Japanese websites has been from people <br>living abroad, the language and logistics issues were seen <br>as being too painful to deal with profitably. <br><br>But while consumption is dropping within Japan, in China <br>
and the other Asian economies rise, the "Made in Japan" <br>label still holds great cachet and people want to buy <br>Japanese products -- particularly clothing, cosmetics, <br>accessories, food, and health remedies. This trend has not <br>
gone unnoticed, and there are now 3 main players who are <br>providing workable solutions for foreign buyers to shop in <br>their own language, purchase with confidence, and to get <br>their products delivered abroad.<br>
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expansion abroad is Rakuten. This company has for a long <br>time been accepting orders from people abroad, most <br>commonly Japanese expats working overseas, and has provided<br>services to export shipments on the behalf of those <br>
clients. In 2007 Rakuten launched a foreign-language site, <br>and once you get past the difficult machine translations, <br>there are thousands of products available for purchase.<br><br>In January this year, Rakuten announced a tie-up with <br>
Chinese search giant Baidu. The two companies said that <br>they would jointly invest US$50m over the next 3 years to <br>build a B2B2C shopping mall for China -- B2B2C meaning that<br>they will provide the structures, software, marketing, and <br>
logistics to enable Chinese store owners to sell their <br>products on the new mall -- much the same as Rakuten does <br>in Japan for over 30,000 merchants selling more than 40m <br>different products. It doesn't take much imagination to see<br>
that once the new mall gets off the ground, that there will<br>be opportunities for Chinese shoppers to buy Japanese goods<br>from the Chinese-language pages of Rakuten's Japanese mall <br>as well.<br><br>Two other much smaller companies which are really changing <br>
the SME export landscape are Navibird and Tenso.com. <br>Navibird is an Osaka company that operates a Japanese expat <br>shopping service called <a href="http://www.jshoppers.com" target="_blank">www.jshoppers.com</a>. This website <br>
sells goods from about 50 Japanese manufacturers, as well <br>
as goods from mail order firms such as kaunet and Cecile --<br>thus significantly increasing Navibird's reach in the <br>vendor universe. Navibird is also helping other SMEs to <br>join its network and sell abroad, providing marketing and <br>
payments solutions, as well as handling foreign customs <br>requirements, shipping, and other logistics issues.<br><br>Jshoppers.com is doing really well and reportedly has <br>300,000 members around the world, 80% of whom are female. <br>
Actually, we'd take that 300K membership with a grain of <br>salt, since there are only 1m or so Japanese expats totally <br>worldwide according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry. <br>Nonetheless, just how well Navibird is doing can be <br>
ascertained from their rapidly increasing sales volumes -- <br>now at JPY500m for FY2008 ending September 2009, and by the<br>tie-ups that they are doing. They already have a Chinese <br>website, anticipating that China's eCommerce sales will <br>
probably double this next year. <br><br>Navibird announced a tie-up with Baidu in 2009 which had <br><a href="http://jshoppers.com" target="_blank">jshoppers.com</a> content echoed on the Baidu site. That <br>project doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, but the <br>
relationship with Baidu back in China appears to be strong <br>enough that a Navibird related company, Direct Mail giant, <br>Nissen, is now planning to target Chinese customers. No <br>word yet on how Navibird will be tied into Nissen's push <br>
-- but given the Nissen is a leading investor in Navibird, <br>it's a given that they will be there. <br><br>The second company you probably haven't heard of, <br>Tenso.com, is a subsidiary of Shinagawa-based Netprice. <br>
This company is a logistics firm that delivers Japanese <br>purchased goods to more than 30,000 registered users <br>located in 55 different countries around the world. The <br>company doesn't care which site you bought from, and <br>
provides you with a Japanese shipping address and payment <br>solutions so that you can get anything online and get it <br>sent onwards to you. This service has been incredibly <br>popular with Japanese expats living abroad, and <br>
Tenso.com's business is growing by leaps and bounds. The <br>company is apparently already shipping more than 10,000 <br>packages per month.<br><br>Of course for non-Japanese speakers, finding the products <br>online in the first place may be a challenge, due to <br>
language difficulties. Netprice has come up with an <br>ingenious way of getting more stuff listed in overseas <br>buyers' native languages without having to create a huge <br>team of translators themselves. Instead, they have created <br>
a website called <a href="http://www.flutterscape.com" target="_blank">www.flutterscape.com</a>, which provides the <br>tools for foreign residents in Japan to pick up products <br>that are already on offer at various sites, then to include<br>
that product information in the person's native language. <br>The producer of such localized pages could be doing this at<br>home while working a day job or studying as a student, and <br>they make a percentage of each product actually sold.<br>
<br>Another site which makes it possible for foreigners to shop<br>in Japan, this time at Yahoo Auctions, Rakuten, and some <br>other online stores, is <a href="http://www.rinkya.com" target="_blank">www.rinkya.com</a>. This company <br>
provides an English interface and shopping assistance <br>service to people living abroad.<br><br>So what about Softbank and Alibaba? Well, Softbank <br>Investment has 41% of Veritrans and therefore its <br>Chinese-language <a href="http://www.buy-j.com" target="_blank">www.buy-j.com</a> website. Veritrans has <br>
access to many SMEs through its payment gateway service and<br>this shows from its solid line-up of products. However, we <br>think it will be some time before it can provide a decent <br>sized base of SME Japanese products to offer for export <br>
simply because Veritrans is not set up as a <br>reseller/shipper to any great extent yet. Interestingly, <br>though, Veritrans' is an investor in Navibird, so Softbank <br>is well covered indirectly.<br><br><br>...The information janitors/<br>
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<br>- Big insurance IPO coming up<br>- JETRO survey on international operations<br>- Domestic violence surges<br>- Food self-sufficiency target of 50% by 2020<br>- Emergency SME business loans hit 1m<br><br><br><br>-> Big insurance IPO coming up<br>
<br>Major insurance group Dai-Ichi Mutual Life plans to do <br>Japan's largest IPO for the last two years, on April 1st. <br>The company hopes to raise about JPY1.08trn (approx. <br>US$12bn) from the listing. The listing will be carefully <br>
watched by investors, as the performance of other large <br>IPOs around Asia in the last two quarters has been <br>disappointing. If the Dai-Ichi listing is a success, <br>bankers are saying that in Asia ex-Japan there could be as <br>
many as US$120bn of planned IPOs lined up. This supply is <br>expected to be met by well cashed up Asia-based funds <br>needing to find big names to invest in. ***Ed: Thus, there <br>is some optimism by bankers for a surge of regional <br>
listings if Dai-Ichi goes well.** (Source: TT commentary <br>from <a href="http://nytimes.com" target="_blank">nytimes.com</a>, Mar 18, 2010)<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yfcc2v2" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yfcc2v2</a><br>
<br>-> JETRO survey on international operations<br>
<br>The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) has released <br>its annual survey profiling what Japanese multinationals <br>are doing abroad. The latest survey covers 935 firms <br>operating globally and has found that of those companies <br>
with overseas operations, 74.9% are in China, 44.8% are in <br>the U.S., and 38% are in Thailand. Further, 56% of <br>companies plan to expand their international business <br>investments in the next 3 years, up 5.7% from last year's <br>
survey. China was the main country of expansion, followed <br>by Asian newly industrialized economies and Indonesia and <br>Vietnam. ***Ed: Lots more good info in this survey.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://pressreleasenetwork.com" target="_blank">pressreleasenetwork.com</a>, Mar <br>
13, 2010)<br><br><a href="http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/newsroom/news_view.phtml?news_id=3141" target="_blank">http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/newsroom/news_view.phtml?news_id=3141</a><br><br>-> Domestic violence surges<br>
<br>
According to the National Police Agency (NPA), the level <br>of reported domestic violence (DV) incidents jumped 11.7% <br>in 2009 to 28,158 cases. This number includes 2,429 cases <br>serious enough to warrant restraining orders being issued <br>
by courts against partners and others, and 44 cases <br>involving either murders or attempted murders. The number <br>of DV incidents is believed to substantially under <br>represent the actual level of domestic violence. A 2008 <br>
government survey found that only 33.2% of 1,358 women <br>subject to domestic violence actually reported the acts to <br>the police. Of the other 66.8%, about half told no one and <br>a full 36% apparently felt that they were to blame for what<br>
happened. ***Ed: This is just the tip of the iceberg. <br>Japan through pressure of population and tradition requires<br>people to repress a lot of feelings and emotions.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://monstersandcritics.com" target="_blank">monstersandcritics.com</a>, Mar 18,<br>
2010)<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ygwpp44" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ygwpp44</a><br><br>-> Food self-sufficiency target of 50% by 2020<br><br>The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that it has set <br>
a food self-sufficiency target for Japan of 50% by fiscal <br>
2020, up from the 41% rate today. The government plans to <br>increase self sufficiency initially by providing income <br>support to farmers, thus encouraging them to stay on their <br>land despite aggressive price competition from China and <br>
other nations. ***Ed: Yeah, let's give more money to 70- <br>and 80-year old farmers... how shallow is this move? What <br>would make a lot more sense would be to fully open up the <br>farming sector to private ownership and competition. Even <br>
the OECD is saying to Japan to get serious about <br>competition and rationalize its farming sector: <br><a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/26/45/42791674.pdf.**" target="_blank">http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/26/45/42791674.pdf.**</a> <br>
(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://nikkei.com" target="_blank">nikkei.com</a>, Mar 20, 2010)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20100319D19JFA24.htm" target="_blank">http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20100319D19JFA24.htm</a><br>
<br>
-> Emergency SME business loans hit 1m<br><br>To get some idea of just how much the government is bailing<br>out the corporate sector, look no further than the 1m <br>small-business loan applications to the government's 2008 <br>
emergency funding program. Apparently JPY18.56trn worth of <br>loans have been made under the program already, amounting <br>to an incredible 3,000 such loans a day...! ***Ed: For more<br>information on Japan's loan guarantee system, go to: <br>
<a href="http://www.zenshinhoren.or.jp/pdf/English_Annual_Report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.zenshinhoren.or.jp/pdf/English_Annual_Report.pdf</a>. <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://nikkei.com" target="_blank">nikkei.com</a>, Mar 20, 2010)<br>
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by readers. We encourage you to spot our mistakes and<br>amplify our points, by email, to <a href="mailto:editors@terrie.com" target="_blank">editors@terrie.com</a>.<br><br>*** In TT557 we ran a news item about officials in Narita<br>
considering to install full body scanners. We think it's <br>
a total invasion of privacy, despite assurances from <br>authorities abroad that scanner output is not retained. <br>Now, as a reader comments, the first incident of operator<br>reproduction of an image has occurred. There will be a lot<br>
more...<br><br>=> Reader: Thought you'd find it interesting to discover <br>that there have already been Body Scanner operator misuse<br>incidents, as reported in a recent news reports. Here is an<br>edited version of one report:<br>
<br>"Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner <br>images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass <br>through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven <br>fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of <br>
Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and<br>circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.<br><br>Khan told the BBC’s Jonathan Ross, 'I was in London <br>recently going through the airport and these new machines <br>
have come up, the body scans. You’ve got to see them. It <br>makes you embarrassed – if you’re not well endowed...' <br><br>Read more about Khan's experience at:<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yahorbv" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yahorbv</a><br>
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