As the cultural capital of Japan, traditional arts are actively cultivated in the city.
Again, I expect the flow of capital out of Japan to continue, and I remain very bullish about non-Japanese stocks.
Last month, facing sharp drops in their stock prices, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs sought the safety of bank holding company status, and got injections of capital from Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ and Warren Buffett, respectively.
At a panel discussion on the report, Lulu Wang, chief executive of Tupelo Capital Management, pointed to Japan as example of the benefits of FDI.
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But, in other respects, the sudden execution of Mr Takuma was typical of Japan's murky system of capital punishment.
There is a low level of venture capital funding in Japan, given that there are relatively few opportunities to chase.
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Foreign-based venture capital firms have almost no presence in Japan, with the exception of DCM Capital and a smattering of other firms.
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Under the gaze of television cameras, Yoshizawa Yasuyuki, the 42-year-old head of the Bank of Japan's capital-markets division, was driven away in a black sedan.
Its high investment-to-GDP ratio is often flagged as evidence of overinvestment, yet its capital stock per person is only 5% of America's or Japan's.
That is on top of interest payments well above those available in Japan, plus juicy capital gains as, thanks to falling interest rates, prices of long-term bonds have soared.
The bond also gives investors a chance to express their opinion on the expected rate of inflation in Japan over the next ten years, says John Richards of Barclays Capital in Tokyo.
Morgan's head of debt capital markets in Asia, excluding Japan, said he tells clients who are ready to issue debt.
They tend to be more resilient in times of stress, while retail investors typically flee when markets turn sour, said Luke Garner, co-head of high-yield capital markets in Asia, excluding Japan, at J.
His previous work as a venture partner with SoftBank Capital took him to Japan, where he bought one of his first paintings, and he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars since then buying art, much of it Asian.
Quite simply, in Japan too much capital is devoted to the business of lending.
The yen has not responded to this, because of enormous countervailing capital flows caused by the financial crisis in Japan.
Most matches on the outdoor courts were called off by heavy rain and strong winds from Typhoon Higos, one of the strongest storms to threaten Japan's capital since World War II.
The dwindling value of Japan's stockmarket has reduced the banks' capital as they struggle to write off their vast bad debts.
During Japan's boom years, increasing inputs of capital and labor guaranteed growth.
They know that Japan still controls the world's largest supply of capital and access to the world's second largest economy.
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Japan gets zero or slow growth from huge amounts of capital.
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Japan's exports also moved swiftly up the value chain, but whereas this was not enough to support durable gains in its market share, China has the advantage of capital controls that will prevent its exchange rate rising as abruptly as Japan's did in the 1980s.
The laser printer sector is beginning to see some component and toner shortages as a result of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, according to Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes.
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In Japan, too, banks have lots of preferred shares in their capital bases.
Many observers have also argued that a number of countries have grown rapidly -- Western Europe and Japan before and China today -- without free mobility of private capital, especially of portfolio capital.
Mark Follett, head of the firm's high-grade debt capital markets desk for Asia excluding Japan, says that is because many Chinese companies plan to tap the bond market and diversify their funding from a heavy reliance on bank loans.
Former capital Kyoto, in particular, is known worldwide as one of the most beautiful places in Japan, and it's the place to absorb the maximum amount of architectural beauty, culture and history in the shortest amount of time.
The most important test will come not in the vulnerable economies of the developing world, nor in Japan, but in the rich, developed world that provides most of that capital and sets the tone on trade and investment rules.
Yoshikai Masanori, deputy director general of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, warned that there could be capital flight from economies that were seen as not doing enough to overcome the problem.
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