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Although Japan started investments in Europe as early as in the 19th century, it only has notably increased in the last 30 to 40 years. This text will explore the history of Japanese investments in Europe and will look into which sectors the investments have been made and compare the overall size of the investment to other investment destinations of Japan.

Japan has made first investments in Europe as early as 1870 but has not been very high for the next hundred years. Since about 1975 the speed of investments in Europe notably accelerated. 10 years later when the globalization came more in fashion, the investment again expanded even faster.

The sectors Japanese investments in Europe have mostly concentrated in were banking and insurance, the real estate sector and services. Investments in the Industry have been comparatively low but started to expand with the globalization trend.

It can be seen, that Japan follows American investment pattern and they realized the importance of having a presence in their main markets. So they can reach customers as well as business partners better and thus improve their corporate image. Japanese investment in manufacturing has been made in Japans most profitable export sectors which are cars, machines and electronic articles.

Compared to the investment in other markets, the Japanese investments in Europe are still relatively small, lacking far behind their investments in Asia and North America, especially in the manufacturing sector. Japanese investment is also lacking far behind other investing nations in Europe and is tiny compared to the inner-EU and the US investment in Europe.

Retired soccer Star tried to crash bank system!
Eric Cantona, a retired soccer star tried to crash bank system”

Tuesday, 7th December 2010
The formal french international soccer star Eric Cantona is trying to be the leader of a enormous revolution, which should harm the financial world. Cantona told his the people to go to the bank on saturday and to clear their bank account. On this way he wants to point to the financial crises and the problems that the Banks cause to the society.
Experts think that there won’t be any Problems with this kind of “Revolution”. They say that the bank system is stable enough that it won’t be harmed by some people clearing their bank accounts. A society witch can be crashed by such a little think is already at their End.
The Banks don’t expect many people clearing their bank accounts either, because this step takes much efford and preparation. It’s not that easy to clear the bank accounts and just stop using the offers a bank has to give. And there are many customers too that are totally happy with their Bank. Eric Cantona was just trying to make a sign and to tell people to look at the financial problems that are still there. He wanted them not to think that the financial crises is totally over, but that we shouldn’t forget what happened to many people because of it, just because it’s getting better now. And of course there will be people who follow Eric Cantona’s Idea of this little Revolution. And they will try to make a point and clear their bank accounts in order to crash the bank system. But that won’t work because there won’t be enough people to crash it. But the main part of this Revolu-tion just happened. Everybody is talking again about the financial crises and the Problems it caused to the Society.

Ireland, once again home of the poor?
After a period of relative affluence or even kind of an economic miracle, Ireland seems about to become Europe`s next poor kid on the block.
After digesting the shocking news that Greece was about to go bankrupt the bad news have not subsided. The next candidate to become a problem child seems to be Ireland.
In the nineties of the last century and in the early years of this century Ireland enjoyed something like a miracle. Companies were lured to the country by the very low taxes plus a friendly population and the relative proximity to the rest of the continent.
So even Germans or Frenchmen went to live and work in Ireland. All this has recently changed, and the decline is so dramatic that the best and brightest Irish collectively plan to emigrate. What such a brain drain means to a country is an all-too known fact.
What happened to create this downfall? The investors withdrew their money in great amounts, they moved to new horizons. A country that is underfunded can no longer keep up its status. Consequently, the banks started to wobble, and some of them even had to close down.
It is a tragic thought but the old picture of the Irish famine, a picture of people (and horses) starving may once again apply.
Ireland is one of a number of “bubble” countries that at no point actually achieved the stability to last for much more than a decade, It is sad that, although Ireland is such a beautiful country, it is also about to become a very poor country once again!
So say good-bye to the Celtic tiger!