Dan Slater

Recent Articles by Dan Slater

August 31, 2009

Why China Won't Be Impressed by Japan's Election

At the time of going to press, it wasn't yet clear if Japan's opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was going to win a remarkable two-thirds majority, ...

August 3, 2009

Japanese Electronics Companies Seek New Ways to Survive

It's not often you hear analysts say cost cutting has gone far enough, but that's what a research report from Macquarie said about NEC Electronics' restructuring plans...

July 24, 2009

Democratic Party Win Could Revitalize Japan

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi must be wondering whether to be glad or sorry. On the one hand, his vow to 'smash' his own party, the Liberal ...

July 2, 2009

Japan's Real Estate Trusts Rise from the Abyss

Japan's 40 real estate investment trusts (Reits) are slowly and painfully recovering from their worst experience since they were introduced in 2001. However, some ...

May 5, 2009

Merger Ahead for Japanese Banks Backed by U.S. Investors?

Shinsei and Aozora continue to fascinate and horrify in equal measure. The two banks, formerly known as Long Term Credit Bank of Japan and Nippon Credit Bank, are the ...

April 27, 2009

Markets Unfazed by Huge Nomura Loss

Compared to the near-hysteria surrounding the results of Western investment banks, Nomura Securities' consolidated results announcement after the market closed on ...

April 24, 2009

Japan's Kirin Targets Australia's Lion Nathan

Kirin, Japan's largest diversified drinks conglomerate, announced on Thursday that it is interested in purchasing the part of Lion Nathan that it doesn't already own. ...

February 17, 2009

What Japan's Restructuring Missed: A Safety Net

Must Japan always lag? First, it lagged in neo-liberal capitalism. Then it caught up with the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions 20 years late and deregulated the labour ...

January 28, 2009

Pressure Builds on Sony Boss Stringer

Sony yesterday announced an operating loss of ¥18 billion ($197 million) for the crucial Christmas quarter of fiscal 2008 (ending March 2009), compared to a gain of ...

January 25, 2009

CEO Stringer Blames 'Old Sony' for Profit Loss

Sony CEO Howard Stringer yesterday blamed the latest awful profit outlook for Japan's favourite electronics company on not adapting fast enough to new conditions, as ...