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Is Japanese corporate
sentiment changing?
➢Stagnation in value creation and productivity
➢The rising “risk of not taking risks”
➢ Need to Globalize Corporate Governance and CSR
➢Generating Growth and Employment through
Corporate
➢Transformation
➢Abenomics
➢Abenomics Effects
➢ References
➢Abenomics Impacts on the world economy
Autorain
Stagnation in value creation and
productivity
Japanese companies to extreme cost-cutting pressures
both within Japan and
overseas. A key challenge in this environment is to
make a transition to
management structures that are resilient to exchange
rate fluctuations.
The rising “risk of not taking risks”
the decision-making process remains too
time-consuming and management exhibits a marked
preference for cautious
approaches to new challenges and to risk-taking. In
the past, growth could be
achieved without taking big risks. In the current
environment, however, not
taking risks stands out as the biggest risk.
Need to Globalize Corporate
Governance and CSR
Thus, one
of the urgent challenges facing Japanese
companies is to create systems that
ensure appropriate levels of management
transparency, objectivity, fairness,
speed, and disclosure.
Generating Growth and Employment
through Corporate
Transformation
First and foremost, this implies generating
economic growth and
employment by accepting the challenges of boldly
transforming our companies
for the purpose of the achievement of economic
rehabilitation.
Abenomics
Abenomics is based upon "three arrows" of
fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural
reforms. The Economist characterized the
program as a "mix of reflation, government
spending and a growth strategy designed to jolt
the economy out of suspended animation that
has gripped it for more than two decades."
Mitsuya(three
arrows) Cider
issues a bubble .=>
Abenomics Effects
Abenomics had immediate effects on various
financial markets in Japan. By February 2013, the
Abenomics policy led to a dramatic weakening of the
Japanese yen and a 22% rise in the TOPIX stock
market index.The unemployment rate in Japan fell
from 4.0% in the final quarter of 2012 to 3.7% in the
first quarter of 2013, continuing a past trend.
Abenomics Impacts on the world
economy
In the early October 2014, the IMF revised its 2014
global growth forecast downwards from 3.4 percent to
3.3 percent, although many central banks continued to
provide liquidity to the world financial market. Weaker
expansions in Japan, Latin America and Europe
worsened the outlook for the world economy.
In October 2014 the World Bank's chief economist
Kaushik Basu said that the world economy was taking
the risk of stagnation, adding that Eurozone and
Japan were the main slowdown areas.
http://it.impressbm.co.jp/ud/sp/site/s000006
http://www.doyukai.or.jp/en/policyproposals/2010/pdf/110111c.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics
http://www.sakenotanda.co.jp/cathand/detail-440250.html
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Is japanese corporate sentiment changing

  • 2. ➢Stagnation in value creation and productivity ➢The rising “risk of not taking risks” ➢ Need to Globalize Corporate Governance and CSR ➢Generating Growth and Employment through Corporate ➢Transformation ➢Abenomics ➢Abenomics Effects ➢ References ➢Abenomics Impacts on the world economy Autorain
  • 3. Stagnation in value creation and productivity Japanese companies to extreme cost-cutting pressures both within Japan and overseas. A key challenge in this environment is to make a transition to management structures that are resilient to exchange rate fluctuations.
  • 4. The rising “risk of not taking risks” the decision-making process remains too time-consuming and management exhibits a marked preference for cautious approaches to new challenges and to risk-taking. In the past, growth could be achieved without taking big risks. In the current environment, however, not taking risks stands out as the biggest risk.
  • 5. Need to Globalize Corporate Governance and CSR Thus, one of the urgent challenges facing Japanese companies is to create systems that ensure appropriate levels of management transparency, objectivity, fairness, speed, and disclosure.
  • 6. Generating Growth and Employment through Corporate Transformation First and foremost, this implies generating economic growth and employment by accepting the challenges of boldly transforming our companies for the purpose of the achievement of economic rehabilitation.
  • 7. Abenomics Abenomics is based upon "three arrows" of fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms. The Economist characterized the program as a "mix of reflation, government spending and a growth strategy designed to jolt the economy out of suspended animation that has gripped it for more than two decades." Mitsuya(three arrows) Cider issues a bubble .=>
  • 8. Abenomics Effects Abenomics had immediate effects on various financial markets in Japan. By February 2013, the Abenomics policy led to a dramatic weakening of the Japanese yen and a 22% rise in the TOPIX stock market index.The unemployment rate in Japan fell from 4.0% in the final quarter of 2012 to 3.7% in the first quarter of 2013, continuing a past trend.
  • 9. Abenomics Impacts on the world economy In the early October 2014, the IMF revised its 2014 global growth forecast downwards from 3.4 percent to 3.3 percent, although many central banks continued to provide liquidity to the world financial market. Weaker expansions in Japan, Latin America and Europe worsened the outlook for the world economy. In October 2014 the World Bank's chief economist Kaushik Basu said that the world economy was taking the risk of stagnation, adding that Eurozone and Japan were the main slowdown areas.