just the facts, page-30

Zzup, thanks for posting the articles. I have the view for a long time that the emerging markets, especially china, will boost japan's export, and indirectly push up the yen. Most of the jounalists nowadays are simply repeating each other. For example, "the risk of china slowing down the growth...blah blah". Even slowed down, china is still growing 8% pa, and most of the jouno's forgot about the rising wages in china. The average manufacturing worker's wage will at least double in 5 years. In another word, most of them will be able to afford Japanese products, and european products etc, we are talking about a market with 100s milions customers, for real this time. Japan is a strong export ecconomy, that's the reason I am bullish on its long term (>5yr) future, despite the aging population.

Cheers. Snowfree