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...approximately $100 million. This marked the first time a wage earner had captured the top spot, an occasion that many writers and talk-show hosts alternately hailed and lamented as a signature moment in the new, more Darwinian society?for Kiyohara's pay is almost entirely performance-based. The Nikkei Weekly business newspaper opined: "This new era is one in which individuals can have a significant impact on a company and its image, as demonstrated by the enormous compensation paid to this one person for creating new revenue streams...
...modest. Meanwhile, Asia's other pioneering online stores, like Max MP3 in Korea and iBiz in Taiwan, remain small and local. Japan, with its $4.16 billion music market and love of all things high-tech, should be an obvious opportunity for online-music sales. A survey by Japan's Nikkei Business Daily found that 47% of respondents would buy music from iTunes if they could. But Sony, the obvious candidate for market leadership (after all, Sony invented the portable music market with the Walkman), has been cautious. The company recently introduced a pair of updated hard drive portable players...
...invest anywhere, you have to be patient. To invest in Japan, you have to be masochistic. On Dec. 29, 1989, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index closed at 38,915.87. Some 14 years later, the Nikkei is at 10,410.15--a 73% cumulative loss during a period when U.S. stocks quadrupled in value. Yet suddenly the Japanese market is hopping. The Nikkei is up 17% this year, just a hair behind U.S. stocks...
...slip 0.6%, which means that a $10,000 bond would lose about $60. It would cost the S&P 500 index 3.4%, the NASDAQ 4.5% and the Dow 3.2%. On opposite shores, RiskMetrics found that the weaker dollar could cause the FTSE 100 to edge up 0.43%, while the Nikkei might zoom 12.97%. Says RiskMetrics strategist Mike Thompson: "The findings reaffirm the importance of owning both U.S. and foreign investments...
...Suddenly, improbably, the Japanese economy?and its stock market?are hot. Since April, the Nikkei 225 stock index has jumped more than 35%, to about 10,300, making it one of the world's best performers so far this year. Foreign investors have rushed in, becoming net buyers of Japanese stocks for 22 consecutive weeks through mid-September, pumping just under $48 billion into the market since May. "It has been such a dramatic change in investor psychology," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JP Morgan in Tokyo. But considering Japan's history of false-start recoveries over the past...