However, foreigners now own 28% of Japanese firms' shares.
Hey mainly trade with Japanese firms.
Uniqlo, a successful Japanese firm with big ambitions, has transformed them into a goldmine.
Even Japanese graduates with PhDs from foreign universities despair of getting jobs at big Japanese firms because they will be seen as overqualified.
ACTIVIST investors rarely bother to target Japanese firms-and are normally sent packing if they do.
So Japanese firms are rushing to hire foreign talent.
The Japanese firm paid a small fortune for the painting.
