Yes, things are so desperate in Japan that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.

FORBES: Upsetting the apple cart

Yes, things have gotten so desperate in Japan lately that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.

FORBES: Upsetting the apple cart

Some governments in emerging markets have sheltered their infant car industries behind tariff walls while much of the protection put in place in America and Europe to shelter domestic producers from Japanese imports in the 1980s is still in place.

ECONOMIST: Global pile-up