Now may be the time (finally!) to invest in the Japanese stock market. For many years, the stock market has been stagnant because companies did not have to go to the stock market to raise capital - they got it from Japanese banks at impossibly low rates with unspecified loan lengths...
As a result there was no pressure on companies to show any increase in stock values.
Now they may have to pay some attention to the individual investor.
Japan Ping? :)
Used to watch my elderly neighbors queue up at the Yokosuka Post Office - older Japanese are really really really really really really conservative when it comes to this stuff. It drives the bankers absolutely nuts.