<div class="gmail_quote">* * * * * * * * * 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" target="_blank">http://www.terrie.com</a>)<br>
<br>General Edition Sunday, July 22, 2012, Issue No. 671<br>
<br>+++ INDEX<br><br>- What's New -- National election this Fall?<br>- News -- Almost 1% of Japanese live overseas<br>- Upcoming Events<br>- Corrections/Feedback<br>- Travel Picks -- Arimatsu, Aichi & Tokyo Mountain Trails<br>
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<br>------------ PBXL is BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS --------------<br><br>+++ WHAT'S NEW<br><br>In Terrie's Take 668 on July 1st, we speculated about why <br>Osaka City mayor, Toru Hashimoto suddenly went silent about<br>
the restarting of the Oi reactors by KEPCO, especially after<br>his earlier strident anti-nuclear stance. Ever since he won the<br>Mayoral race in November 2011, he has been quite vocal <br>about moving away from nuclear power and as a result <br>
became one
of the most popular politicians in Japan. Indeed, <br>for a time, it looked like he might become a linchpin in national<br>politics, not just in Osaka. Then on June 1st, Hashimoto <br>surprised everyone by saying that after seeing the <br>
government's calculations showing the Kansai would have a<br>15% shortage of electricity, something that worried local<br>business leaders no end, he reversed his position and said <br>he would accept the two Oi reactors going back online <br>
again.<br><br>We wondered on July 1st if this was more than just a case <br>of economic prudence and whether Hashimoto didn't have <br>some "dirty laundry" that was being held over him by other <br>players. Actually, given Hashimoto's difficult upbringing <br>
and sudden rise to fame it wasn't that hard for us to <br>imagine that he might have been naughty from time to <br>time. Ever since he won the Dad of the Year award back in <br>2006, though, he was supposed to have turned a new leaf, <br>
but when there is a fire and suddenly no smoke, you just <br>know there has to be a reason. The whole nation found out<br>just what this reason was this week, when Hashimoto had <br>to admit that he'd had an affair with a club hostess for <br>
about 18 months prior to running for governor of Osaka <br>Prefecture back in 2008. <br><br>Hashimoto commented publicly that the expose in the Shukan <br>Bunshun magazine is basically correct. This is the same <br>magazine that revealed last fall that his dad was a <br>
gangster, despite the fact that his mom divorced the dad <br>when Hashimoto was very young and it is likely he never <br>knew him. From these two well timed revelations -- one <br>prior to the Mayoral election last November, and now, just <br>
as rumors have Noda calling a snap election this fall, one <br>can imagine that Hashimoto's competitors have the knives <br>out and are using whatever dirty tricks they can to <br>discredit him. <br><br>[Continued below...]<br>
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<br>---------- YOUR BOTTOM LINE IS OUR TOP PRIORITY------------<br><br><br>[...Article continues]<br><br>Unfortunately for them, Hashimoto is quite smart, although <br>prone to some bizarre personal values (like wanting to ban <br>
tattooed employees from public servant positions where they<br>can be seen). He's smart enough that when he came out with <br>his admission last week, he went on to say that "I was not<br>a saint before I became governor." Shades of Barack Obama, <br>
who had the brains to admit that he did actually inhale while <br>puffing joints. Both young politicians seemed to realize that <br>when you're at a certain inflection point with the media and <br>thereby your public, you can defuse a lot of future problems<br>
by creating a "so what?" attitude. This is especially so <br>when you are alleged to have done something that most<br>of your electorate has probably also done at some point -- <br>and the Japanese do love their extramarital affairs. <br>
<br>Anyway, the first revelation about a gangster dad last <br>November didn't hurt Hashimoto's election results, and <br>commentators are betting that the current one won't either. <br>Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that if Hashimoto <br>
can get back on the populist bandwagon about no nukes, <br>then he and his fledgling Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka) <br>party may still be one of the pivot points for the upcoming <br>election -- something that must be disturbing for PM
Noda<br>and his ever-shrinking DPJ party. But Osaka Ishin no <br>Kai definitely need Hashimoto's star power, for without it <br>they are easy to ignore. This was made abundantly clear by <br>the fact that they recently lost the
Habikino mayoral <br>election by a significant number of votes to a <br>DPJ/LDP-backed candidate, while the "boss" was <br>pre-occupied.<br><br>This brings us to the phantom election itself. Firstly, we <br>are among those who think there will be an election this <br>
fall and that the remnants of the Noda government are going<br>to strike some kind of deal with the opposition LDP to run <br>the country afterwards. We think they have to have an<br>election this year, otherwise Hashimoto, Ichiro Ozawa, and <br>
any others thinking to defect from the DPJ will start gaining <br>traction and become more of a threat as time goes by. <br>Better for Noda and Co., to strike while most of their likely <br>opposition is still in their infancy and are disorganized. As <br>
to timing, Noda knows that he needs to tactfully get past the <br>anti-nuke movement protests, which could yet still de-rail<br>him. If he moves too quickly, there are going to be an awful <br>lot of people who will feel the DPJ has sold them out, and <br>
so our guess is that a November election is more likely <br>than, say, September. <br><br>Much as with Hashimoto, ex-DPJ kingmaker Ichiro "Destroyer"<br>Ozawa, needs some time to get past the public relations <br>
hurdles that have confronted him over the last two years. <br>If there is an election in the next two months, it's likely<br>that Ozawa's Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi (People's Life <br>Comes First) party will be considered irrelevant and out of<br>
touch by the voting public, based on the fact that Ozawa <br>continues to harp on about killing the consumption tax raise<br>even as as most voters consider the need for a rise a <br>done deal, no matter how much they don't like it. OK, we <br>
suppose he could modify his stance, by tapping into the <br>general impression that consumption tax is a tax on the <br>poor, by pushing for certain product/services exemptions <br>for the poor. This would win him a lot of support and let him <br>
off the hook in trying to figure out other ways to increase<br>
government income.<br><br>For Ozawa, a much better and more emotional issue to pick <br>on is the No Nukes movement. The public, especially young <br>families and retired people, are highly sensitive to the <br>fears of nuclear power and radiation. The timing is <br>
perfect, with major rallies being planned in Tokyo over <br>next week and August, and the media is now aware of the <br>groundswell of interest in the movement. Accordingly, we'd <br>be highly surprised if Ozawa doesn't try to do what former <br>
PM Yukio Hatoyama pulled off last Friday, giving a speech <br>saying that "I feel the same way as you who are attending <br>this anti-nuke demonstration, and say NO to the Kansai <br>Electric Company restarting the Oi nuclear power plant in <br>
Fukui." <br><br>But Ozawa should hurry up, or he may find his limelight <br>taken by Hatoyama, Hashimoto, or any one of half a dozen <br>other politicians realizing the opportunity at hand.<br><br>**************<br>
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please visit <a href="http://delta.com" target="_blank">delta.com</a><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>+++ NEWS<br><br>- Almost 1% of Japanese live overseas<br>- Foreign tourist numbers back to 2010 levels<br>
- Current account surplus plummets 63%<br>- Yahoo Japan beefs up its cloud capabilities with M&A<br>- Australia's Toll has enough of Japan<br><br><br><br>=> Almost 1% of Japanese live overseas<br><br>According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, almost 1% of <br>
Japanese citizens now live abroad. A record 1.18m people <br>were domiciled overseas as of October 1st, 2011, up 3.43% <br>on 2010. Of these people, more than 1m were recorded as <br>living abroad either permanently (399,907 people) or for <br>
more than 3 months (782,650 people). The greatest number <br>live in the USA, 397,937 people, followed by China and <br>Australia. ***Ed: What would be interesting is to find<br>out how many people live abroad in retirement.** (Source: <br>
TT commentary from <a href="http://e.nikkei.com" target="_blank">e.nikkei.com</a>, Jul 21, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20120720D2007A18.htm" target="_blank">http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20120720D2007A18.htm</a><br>
<br>=> Foreign tourist numbers back to 2010 levels<br>
<br>According to numbers from the JNTO, there were 686,600 <br>tourists traveling to Japan in June, the highest number <br>since June 2009, and 1.4% up from June 2010 (before the <br>earthquake). The countries supplying the most visitors were<br>
China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The Thai<br>numbers were apparently up 40% after Japan relaxed its visa<br>issuance rules. At the same time tourist numbers from South<br>Korea, France, and Germany are still notably lower, due to <br>
continued concerns in those countries about nuclear safety in <br>Japan. ***Ed: One major travel agency told us that their Thai<br> numbers are way up, and are expected to stay that way. <br>Japan has underestimated the power of Southeast Asians in <br>
the tourism stakes, preferring to focus on China instead, but <br>we expect this to quickly change if those SE Asian tourists <br>wind up spending the same way the Chinese do.** (Source:<br> TT commentary from <a href="http://e.nikkei.com" target="_blank">e.nikkei.com</a>, Jul 21, 2012)<br>
<br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20120720D2007A16.htm" target="_blank">http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20120720D2007A16.htm</a><br><br>=> Current account surplus plummets 63%<br><br>There may be general optimism amongst Japanese companies<br>
about the economy, but manufacturers have to be concerned <br>about the big drop off in orders for machinery in May, which <br>were the lowest since 1985. Overall, Japan's trade <br>performance (all trade, not just exports) was JPY215.1bn, while<br>
most economists expected it to be more in the order of <br>JPY493.1bn. Analysts say that the drop off is probably caused<br>by local manufacturers being worried about the global <br>economic downturn, coupled with the once-again increasing <br>
yen. ***Ed: Our guess is that while the Bank of Japan is saying <br>things are on the mend, all eyes are turning towards the <br>upcoming US election and fears that some very significant trade<br>and currency moves that will arise from that election.** (Source:<br>
TT commentary from <a href="http://bloomberg.com" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a>, Jul 21, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://bloom.bg/MB099o" target="_blank">http://bloom.bg/MB099o</a><br><br>=> Yahoo Japan beefs up its cloud capabilities with M&A<br>
<br>Yahoo Japan's datacenter subsidiary, IDC Frontier, has just<br>invested US$6.1m into a US-based cloud storage technology <br>company called Basho Technologies. Yahoo will apparently <br>roll out Basho's technology in Japan -- indicating that the<br>
company is going to get serious about data centers. ***Ed: <br>Our guess is that Yahoo will go into competition with GMO <br>and several others in terms of offering cloud data storage <br>to SME companies. Also, it's interesting how they managed <br>
to get this deal done despite having a relatively new <br>CEO.** (Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://reuters.com" target="_blank">reuters.com</a>, Jul 17, <br>2012)<br><br><a href="http://reut.rs/NKDFhV" target="_blank">http://reut.rs/NKDFhV</a><br>
<br>=> Australia's Toll has enough of Japan<br><br>Australia's Toll Holdings appears to be getting ready to <br>leave Japan, with the appointment of an external adviser to<br>sell off Toll Japan (formerly Footwork Express). Apparently<br>
Toll will lose somewhere around 50% of its investment after<br>the Japanese unit again lost JPY500m (approx.) for the last<br>financial year. Market experts are saying this loss will be<br>somewhere between AU$30m and AU$100m. ***Ed: Interesting to<br>
see the logic of a major fund-oriented operator like Toll, <br>where they'd rather cut their losses than try to hang in a <br>bit longer. In contrast, a Japanese company would rationalize <br>that the AU$100m that Toll will lose on a sale is equivalent to<br>
20 years of ongoing losses (at the current rate), and so <br>would give themselves 20 years to turn the business around.<br>We think it's a fair bet that there will be an improvement in the <br>global economy within the next 20 years, and therefore this<br>
is a good argument for Toll to be more patient and hang on<br>to their asset.** (Source: TT commentary from WSJ.com, Jul <br>20, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://on.wsj.com/OMiD4P" target="_blank">http://on.wsj.com/OMiD4P</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" target="_blank">editors@terrie.com</a>.<br><br>*** No feedback this week.<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br>
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<br>The slowly disappearing Satoyama culture is definitely <br>something to be savored while there is still a chance. At <br>the northern end of the trail is Hinohara village, a <br>Japanese tourist destination by itself. > From the large bus<br>
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doing any business through it for a year or so. What are the<br>minimum taxes and other fees that I have to pay to keep such<br>a semi-dormant firm going?<br><br>*** Answer<br><br>In principle, the minimum tax a dormant company will owe<br>
is the per capita levy which is taxed according to the scale<br>of the amount of paid in capital (shihonkin) and the number<br>of employees the company is hiring. For example, if the amount<br>of the paid in capital of a company which is established in the<br>
Tokyo Special Wards is not more than JPY10,000,000 and the<br>number of employees it is hiring is not more than 50, the amount<br>of the per capita levy is JPY70,000 per annum. The same rule<br>is applied to a dormant company, therefore the minimum tax a<br>
dormant company will owe is JPY70,000 in the above example.<br>Please note that the amount of the per capita levy will vary<br>according to the district a company is established.<br><br>To continue reading<br><a href="http://www.nagamine-mishima.com/archives/3028?lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.nagamine-mishima.com/archives/3028?lang=en</a><br>
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