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January 1, 2013

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Japan 2013 trends - and a New Year discount for our reports (until Jan 5, 2013):

Japan Trends 2013:

 

Japan's energy sector: Japan has essentially replaced the 30% of its electricity energy supply which was from nuclear power plants, by electricity produced in aging thermal power plants from urgently arranged LNG purchases at very high prices. Prime Minister Abe said that he wants to restart all nuclear power stations, which receive safety clearance by the new Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), and asks for these safety examinations to be completed within 3 years - however the NRA said, that 3 years is far to short to complete the safety assessment.

Given that any discussion about Japan's energy mix, and "new" renewable energy (except for water power), liberalization and development of free energy markets were suppressed for many years in Japan, Japan now urgently needs to start innovating many components of the energy landscape including insulation and smart grids, and a new energy mix. PM Abe thinks that it will take about 10 years to settle on a new energy mix for Japan.

Japan is now waking up to innovation and changes of it's energy and electricity sector.

 

Japan's electronics manufacturing sector  is about as large as the economy of the Netherlands, but collectively showed no growth and lost money over the last 15 years, and therefore will either fade away, or very urgently needs new business models (see interview on BBC). PM Abe's push for a lower YEN might soothe the symptoms a bit, but does not solve the fundamental problems. Hitachi's "smart transformation" are steps in the right direction, but its really too early to tell - also "smart transformation" does not solve Japan's traditionally low emphasis on software and other non-hard-ware-producing crafts.

 

Telecoms: Masayoshi Son, master of the midas touch, acquired what was left of Vodafone-Japan and turned it around successfully within weeks, said reportedly: "I am a man - and want to be Number 1". Now he applies his midas touch to SPRINT. Expect more acquisitions by Son on the way to Number 1 in global telecoms.

 

Best wishes for 2013 !!!

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