<span class="gD">* * * * * * * * * T E R R I E 'S T A K E * * * * * * *<br>A weekly roundup of news & information from Terrie Lloyd.<br>(<a href="http://www.terrie.com">http://www.terrie.com</a>)<br><br>General Edition Sunday, April 08, 2012, Issue No. 657<br>
<br>+++ INDEX<br><br>- What's New -- Printing Industry in Upheaval<br>- News -- Golden Week travel bookings surge<br>- Upcoming Events<br>- Corrections/Feedback<br>- Travel Destinations Picks -- Kumamoto and Kanazawa<br>
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in Japan, with multiple major firms in the industry <br>predicting losses on ordinary operations before the <br>end-of-March fiscal year close, and restructurings all <br>around. There are essentially three sectors involved in <br>
printing, not counting the industry's customers such as <br>publishers, marketers, and packaging firms. Those three <br>sectors are: printing equipment firms, paper companies, and<br>the actual printing services firms themselves.<br>
<br>Of the three, the equipment and paper companies are the <br>easiest to follow, since most of the big boys are public <br>and also tend to focus on their main domain of expertise. <br>These firms were doing fine before the Lehman Shock, and <br>
have tried to counter the last 3-year downturn by <br>exporting their way out of trouble, with mixed success. <br>Printing services firms such as Dai Nippon Printing, <br>however, were already under tremendous pricing pressure <br>
before the Lehman downturn, and so have been building an <br>alternative future. As a result, they have diversified <br>into other industries that ride on "printable" <br>technologies, such as resin moldings, integrated circuits, <br>
RFID, etc. <br><br>Unfortunately for all players, though, the story for FY2011<br>has pretty much been the same: a huge pool of red ink or at<br>very least, substantial falls in profit. <br><br>There have been a number of contributing factors to the <br>
current mess: the high yen has probably been the biggest <br>problem, but not far behind as been the relentless move of <br>content publishing from paper to online, and more recently <br>the rising quality and price competitiveness of foreign <br>
players trying to penetrate the market. Chinese firms <br>aren't really a threat yet, but within 3-5 years they will <br>be. <br><br>Then, in March last year, the Tohoku earthquake dealt <br>severe blows to the paper and ink industries, as a number <br>
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which announced in February that it expects net profit for <br>FY2011 to fall 68%, far below the original forecast. The <br>company says that global trends in the electronics sector <br>are hurting profits and it expects difficulties for a while<br>
to come. Competitor Toppan is also forecasting earnings for<br>FY2011 of about 50% less than originally projected, <br>although this is much better than their shock net profit of<br>just JPY557m on JPY895bn of sales in FY2010. Seems like <br>
they got their licks early.<br><br>On the paper side of things, business is also tough all <br>around. Mitsubishi Paper Mills said in February that its <br>sales fell 11% in FY2011 and it would book a net loss of <br>JPY3.7bn just for the April-December 9 month period, far <br>
greater than the JPY900m loss they had in the same period <br>in FY2010. A lot of this red ink has come from damage to <br>the firm's Hachinohe factory in Aomori, but given that they<br>were already losing money the year before, it's pretty <br>
clear that in any case, Mitsubishi is struggling to <br>compete. We see them as a merger candidate in coming years.<br><br>Mitsubishi's bigger competitors, Oji and Daio, are both <br>down remarkably this year as well. Daio in particular is <br>
suffering as it not only has to deal with global and <br>national trends but also a damaging in-house feud between <br>the paper company management and the founding Ikawa family.<br>You may recall that the grandson of the founding family was<br>
caught borrowing JPY5.5bn from group companies without <br>board approval, after blowing JPY9bn on gambling in Las <br>Vegas, Singapore, and Macao.<br><br>On the printing equipment side, the ills of the industry <br>are easy to see in the largest domestic printing machine <br>
maker, Komori. This company is no slouch and exemplifies <br>Japanese manufacturing and merchandizing prowess. They own <br>about 50% market share in Japan and 30% in both the USA and<br>China (for imported equipment to that country). <br>
Unfortunately they are in a sector that is looking more and<br>more like photographic film did for Fuji Film, and they <br>need to find a way out, soon. They are bleeding lots of red<br>ink, losing JPY7bn in 2009, JPY10bn in FY2010, JPY5.4bn <br>
last year, and will probably lose around JPY6bn this year <br>-- that's a lot of shareholder cash down the tubes... <br><br>But at least Komori is smart enough to figure out a cure. <br>Over the last couple of years they have found profit in <br>
high-end printing of bank notes and securities <br>certificates, both in Japan and abroad. They have also been<br>pushing into digital printing and their shares bounced <br>upwards last month after they announced that they were <br>
tying up with Konica Minolta Holdings, to sell OEM digital <br>printers to smaller printing firms for short-run work. <br>According to the Nikkei, Komori is expecting to see its Q4 <br>results go back into the black -- which will be quite a <br>
turn-around if they manage to achieve it.<br><br>Interestingly, even as Komori migrates over to the digital <br>printing sector, there is no guarantee that this will save <br>the company. Shares in Ricoh tanked in February after the <br>
company announced its first-ever projected loss for FY2011.<br>Ricoh says it will lose around JPY46bn, mainly because of <br>the high yen, goodwill write downs in the commercial <br>printing business, and the poor economic situation in <br>
Europe. Basically, there is no part of the the printing <br>business which is safe at present.<br><br>The companies that we have mentioned so far are of course <br>the behemoths of their respective segments, and their <br>
temporary pains are symptoms of a more terminal disease <br>affecting smaller firms further down the food chain. We <br>have heard of many printing companies slowly sliding under <br>water and going out of business. Some are fighting back <br>
with online order taking and off-shoring, but while <br>absolute demand domestically continues to shrink, there <br>will be no avoiding the attrition that has to come. We see <br>palpable fear in the industry about who will go under next,<br>
and paper companies are now demanding much shorter payment <br>terms from their printing clients (no more of those 6-month<br>tegata) or even in the case of the smallest firms, upfront <br>cash. This is of course wreaking havoc on the cash flow of <br>
the little guys and is not sustainable.<br><br>So where will the printing industry head? The obvious <br>answer is: Digital. But how to get there when you're in a <br>physical business like paper? We don't think paper is going<br>
away any time soon. Rather, it will be used more <br>strategically, in conjunction with online resources. So <br>printing clients need to find a way to make their printed <br>products work in a digital age, connecting the flexibility <br>
and tangibility of paper with the searchability and <br>indexability of online data. <br><br>One very clever app and business model that binds paper and<br>digital together shows a possible way forward. Oita-based <br>O-Rid's Kyber SmartMarker service lets people mark up a <br>
newspaper article or other paper-based text of choice, <br>using a special JPY500 marker pen, then take a photo with a<br>smart phone of the marked up paper article and submit it to<br>O-Rid's online digitization service. <br>
<br>The digitization service costs just JPY1,980 for 5,000 <br>Japanese characters, a very reasonable proposition, and as <br>a result O-Rid already has 10,000 subscribers and recorded <br>sales of JPY1.89bn last year. The main users of its service<br>
are organizations who need to digitize handwritten <br>applications and surveys. Great idea, and something that a <br>printing company needs to be doing.<br><br>Yes, we realize that creating apps isn't going to save <br>
every printing, paper, and printing machine maker in Japan.<br>But the point here is embracing and extending to the <br>digital sector will be essential for every firm in the <br>printing business, and those who move quickly will survive,<br>
while those who don't will go the way of other obsolete <br>industry players (Kodak for example). <br><br>Actually, in this respect we see strong parallels between <br>the photo film industry and printing. Therefore we expect <br>
that some of the bigger players in printing will speed up <br>their internationalization efforts through M&A and <br>technology alliances just as Fuji Film has done. The <br>equipment companies such as Ricoh and Komori are definitely<br>
capable of doing this and are already doing so. However, we<br>have our doubts about paper firms such as Oji and Daio.<br>Looking at the printing services companies Dai Nippon and <br>Toppan, we also think they understand what they have to do <br>
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<br>- Civic leaders create anti-nuclear group<br>- Costly fossil fuels replace nuclear<br>- Apple/Android smartphones take 60% of market<br>- World's biggest pension fund reckons JGBs to stay stable<br>- Golden Week travel bookings surge<br>
<br><br><br>-> Civic leaders create anti-nuclear group<br><br>In what could be a significant political development, 15 <br>former and current mayors of towns and cities across Japan <br>have formed a group to lobby against the re-starting of <br>
Japan's many idled domestic nuclear power plants. The <br>group will hold its inaugural conference on April 28th in <br>Tokyo and says that it expects about another 40 to join <br>its ranks by that time. ***Ed: Power from nuclear sources <br>
or power cuts? That's likely to be a tough decision to be <br>made this summer. Our guess is that the power plants will <br>be brought back on line, but that there will be significant<br>backlash for the DPJ. We're thinking this will play into <br>
the hands of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and may give his <br>new political party significant clout in the next elections.<br>That would certainly be something interesting to see.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://japantimes.co.jp">japantimes.co.jp</a>, Apr 8, 2012)<br>
<br><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120408a2.html">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120408a2.html</a><br><br>-> Costly fossil fuels replace nuclear<br><br>With just 1 nuclear reactor producing power for the <br>
national grid, Japan has had to make a huge move back to <br>fossil fuels for power generation. As a result, the country<br>is spending US$1.9bn more year-on-year on LNG, crude oil, <br>and heavy fuel oil -- all of which are up by 15% to 30% in <br>
volume. ***Ed: Fuel is being shipped in from up to 12 <br>different supplying countries and it has become a national <br>priority to secure supplies. No wonder the Amir of Kuwait <br>was welcomed to Japan with such fanfare just a couple of <br>
weeks back...** (Source: TT commentary from <br><a href="http://washingtonpost.com">washingtonpost.com</a>, Apr 8, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://wapo.st/I5LNKA">http://wapo.st/I5LNKA</a> <br><br>-> Apple/Android smartphones take 60% of market<br>
<br>Cell phone research firm MM Research Institute says that <br>the Japanese mobile phone market grew for the second year <br>in a row, with 41m units shipped in FY2011. Most of this <br>growth was in smartphones, and overall 60% of the sales <br>
were by either Apple, or Samsung and other foreign <br>companies running Google's Android operating system. <br>Significantly, Toshiba sold its cell phone business to <br>Fujitsu last week and so has withdrawn from the market. As <br>
a result, Japan's initial 11 handset makers have fallen to <br>just 6. ***Ed: Not hard to see where this is all going... <br>Those Japanese firms still making phones must surely be <br>following Microsoft's fight-back strategy in the USA, to <br>
see if there is anything to be learned there.** (Source: <br>TT commentary from <a href="http://e.nikkei.com">e.nikkei.com</a>, Apr 7, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20120407D0604A14.htm">http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20120407D0604A14.htm</a><br>
<br>-> World's biggest pension fund reckons JGBs to stay stable<br><br>Japan's Government Pension Investment fund, which at <br>US$1.3trn is the world's largest, has said that it thinks <br>yields (and thus pricing) for domestic government bonds <br>
are likely to be stable for some time. Their reasoning is <br>apparently that the nation is still in deflation and is <br>expected to stay that way for a while, and at the same <br>time, domestic banks have plenty of cash on hand and will <br>
continue buying bonds as a result. ***Ed: Good news for <br>the government, which can keep issuing debt, but bad news <br>for Japan's future generations of tax payers...** (Source: <br>TT commentary from <a href="http://reuters.com">reuters.com</a>, Apr 6, 2012)<br>
<br><a href="http://reut.rs/HsfIdI">http://reut.rs/HsfIdI</a> <br><br>-> Golden Week travel bookings surge<br><br>Travel company JTB has said that the number of people <br>looking to travel abroad has increased by 4.8% over last <br>
year, to 563,000 people, the highest number since 2000. At <br>the same time, the number of people traveling domestically <br>is also up by 4.2%, with trips to both the Kanto and Kyushu<br>doing well. JTB's numbers come from a survey of customers <br>
about their intentions this year. ***Ed: The high yen is a <br>big part of this recovery, but our sense is that it's also<br>a rebound from consumers breaking out of their <br>self-restraint mode after the Tohoku disaster last year. <br>
Could be a good summer for consumers and merchants.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://e.nikkei.com">e.nikkei.com</a>, Apr 6, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20120406D06SS242.htm?GID=58">http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20120406D06SS242.htm?GID=58</a><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">editors@terrie.com</a>.<br><br>*** No feedback this week.<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br>
<br>+++ TRAVEL DESTINATIONS PICKS<br><br>=> Kurokawa Onsen, Kumamoto-ken, Kyushu<br>One of the best hot spring resort towns in Japan <br><br>The appeal of Kurokawa Onsen is it's tranquil, quaint <br>atmosphere and natural outdoor hot springs ("Rotenburo"). <br>
Since there are so many different kinds of hot springs in <br>Kurokawa, you can purchase a "nyuto tegata", a hot spring <br>pass that costs just 1200 yen and gives you access to 3 hot<br>springs. They are available at the Kurokawa Spa Hotel <br>
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<br>=> Chiyomoto, Kanazawa, Kanagawa-ken<br>Foreign Footsteps in Yokohama – Felice Beato <br><br>Chiyomoto is an authentic Japanese restaurant that <br>regularly showed up in Hiroshige's ukiyoe woodblock prints <br>
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Hakkei.<br><br>When Chiyomoto first began doing business, Edo culture was <br>flourishing and people enjoyed trips of pleasure in the <br>Kanagawa area using worship as a pretext for their travels.<br>The standard and most popular course was a 4-to-5 night <br>
trip moving from Edo to Ohyama to Enoshima to Kamakura and <br>finally to Kanazawa. Except for Kanazawa, all the other <br>places were holy precincts and people were supposed to be <br>"pure" for the duration of their stay in those towns. This <br>
meant no alcohol, no singing and dancing, and no women. <br>Chiyomoto was a thriving, high rank, expensive teahouse <br>that stood on a piece of land with the best view of <br>Kanazawa Inlet. But beside the view, her guests also <br>
enjoyed drinking and carousing... (read more on <br>JapanTourist.jp)<br><br><a href="http://japantourist.jp/view/kanazawa-hakkei-s-chiyomoto">http://japantourist.jp/view/kanazawa-hakkei-s-chiyomoto</a><br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br>
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