from Sunday's Nikkei

中東・中南米を開拓　成長市場へ布石　生活関連企業　バンダイナムコはメキシコ　良品計画、イスラエルに

Japn's life-related major companies are tapping foreign countries' markets in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. A toy maker NAMUKO BANDAI Holdings Inc. will set up a sales firm in Mexico and Ryohin Keikaku Co.,known by the brand name of "Mujirushi Ryohin," will establish a store in Israel within the year. Unicharm Corporation is going to build a disposal diaper factory in Egypt, which is the first case in Africa and is expected to begin its operation in fiscal 2012.

While many of domestic demand-oriented companies in Japan have placed Asia in the center of their foreign business strategies,they are going to make preparations for tapping the markets in Latin America,the Middle East and others, which have a growing market.They hope the business in such areas will become one of their business pillars.

from yeterday's Nikkei

外国法弁護士　活動容易に　企業の国際化に対応　法務省方針　

The Ministry of Justice decided on Monday to significantly ease regulations on establishing a lawyer's office in Japan. According to officials concerned,in order to help lawyers dealing with foreign laws and regulations in Japan set up their offices,relate laws are revised and arranged for that.

As companies' activities has been more and more internationalized, there are an increasing number of negotiations with foreign companies in even local and small-sized companies.

from today's Nikkei

投信残高　３年ぶり増加　昨年度末６３兆円　新興国関連が好調　日本株は売却膨らむ

According to a data, personal investment money comes back to the trust investment market.The balance of the net assets of the trust investments which hade been collected from the public, as of the end of fiscal 2009, was 63.6985 trillin yen,up 24 percen from a year ealier. The increase of the balance compared with the previous year was for the first time in the past three years.

At present, thanks to factors like worldwide stock price hikes the value of the assets in which moeny was invested has been boosted.Futhermore,sales of newly-marketed trust investment products are going well.

Looking into the area where money is invested,while investment in Japanese stocks is decreasing, investment in socks and others in emerging countries like Brazil is increasing.