doing business in Japan

Doing business in the Orient is ‘O’ so easy with the help of worldwide couriers

by Jamie Francis on May 16, 2011

Many doors have been opened in recent years allowing Western companies to establish trading relationships with counterparts in Japan, and as these links have grown, so has the number and variety of worldwide courier services to meet these needs.

Depending on which measurement is used, Japan is either the second or third largest economy in the world. Guarantees of employment for much of the country’s workforce, along with the national policy of keiretsu, which lays down tightly-prescribed structures for the relationships between the country’s manufacturers, distributors and suppliers, which were highly-prized features of Japan’s post-Second World War economy, have had to be abandoned as the government’s priorities have switched to bringing the country’s fiscal deficit under control.

Nevertheless, such a large economy still requires substantial amounts of imported goods in order to function properly, and in 2009 Japan’s imports were valued at...Read More >>