-Only 8% of managers are females in Japan, whereas, they are 40% in America and 20% in China, as of 2010, according to the Economist magazine. This difference in female participation means Japan is only get their ideas from men. The lose of creative ideas is a debilitating consequence of low female participation. … "Female Managers In Japan" has a significant impact, so an analyst should put more weight into it.
-Japan's reliance on exports could cause many economic problems, because export earnings are very volatile. They are also subject to enormous international competition, which means they could easily lose to competition from China or any low expense locations around the world. Exports also depend on currency valuations, which happen to change very quickly and for unknown reasons. …
-Japan's grim reputation as one of the world's suicide nations has been confirmed by statistics that show more than 30,000 people a year have taken their own lives since figures first began to rise in 1998. In 2006, there were 32,115 suicides - 25 per 100,000 people; nearly 100 people a day; one every 15 minutes. The most common hour of death is 5am for men and noon for women, after their families have left for work or school. Japan has roughly half the population of the US, yet the same number of suicides. There were 5,554 suicides of people aged 15 and over in the UK in 2006; three quarters involved men.
-Banks in may countries purchase share of countries in their home territory to speculate on share prices or to establish a stronger relationship with a client. These relationships are beneficial to the bank when share prices rise, but can hurt a bank when shares prices fall.
Banks profit by lending money and an economy relies on bank lending to function. A decrease in bank lending is a restriction on the money flowing through the economy, therefore, the economy decreases, because there is less money. If the economy decreases, then generally, stock prices also decrease. When banks hold shares in other companies when those shares become less valuable, then banks have less money to lend, which further restricts the economy and causes share prices to decrease further.
When banks hold shares in other companies during an economic recession, it causes the banks to restrict lending (because of shares decreases) just when the economy needs lending the most.
Many developed countries restrict share holdings by bank