Fujishouji (藤商事, security code 6257) is a public company trading on the Jasdaq stock exchange. I found this entity by trawling through a hundred or so quarterly reports of different companies. I ran an initial share screener set to filter out shares that were unlikely to be scandalously cheap based on some balance sheet metrics. [...]
Sat, May 5 2012 » Investing, Japan, net nets, The Fires of Industry » No Comments
This post is largely unreadable but would make things more awesome. Assuming the exact same conditions as of today: 1. Change the electoral system to a single transferable vote system with the entire country as one constituency. All voting would be electronic and for convenience it would be possible to also put a party block for any [...]
Sun, May 29 2011 » Economics, Japan, Solidarity » 1 Comment
I meant to post a review of this manga last August but never got around to it. The title translates to “Penguin girl”. This is the first volume in the second set for this series. So it’s actually the fourth volume from a story perspective. Since the first three titles covered the storyline that I [...]
Sun, January 23 2011 » Japan, Manga » No Comments
I got this manga last December. It’s called 「月夜のフロマージュ」 which translates to “Moonlit night’s Fromage”. It’s about a boy who plays alot of bishoujo games getting transformed into one of the girls in the games by a “dream eater” girl, who also transports him to her world by accident in the process. A beautiful table [...]
Sat, July 10 2010 » Japan, Manga » No Comments
I am doing some research on stock options at the moment as part of my Masters thesis. Specifically, on the performance of options on the Nikkei 225 index. Rather than being options to buy or sell a particular share, these options are to buy or sell the “basket” of 225 shares represented by the Nikkei [...]
Tue, July 6 2010 » Economics, Japan » 4 Comments