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.
What ETF covers the Japanes stock market?
I agree. I suffered through the 90's with a Pacific Fund (Vanguard) and finally dumped it in 2000. I just bought back in this week. I also sold my energy fund around the beginning of this year as I figured the energy prices had peaked. I'm a financial genius.