THE ROLE OF JAPANESE IDE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Japan now the world''s third largest economy after the United States and the People''s Republic of China plays a key role in the Asian and international environment. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is the financial instrument suitable for companies'' acquisitions of new products technology and control in foreign businesses and is encouraged by governments to enhance their economic growth. To best understand all the specifics and characteristics of Japan''s economic and industrial dynamism it is necessary to analyze some fundamental mechanisms that regulate and coordinate the economy and industry such as the productive efficiency of the adopted information systems as well as the ability to manage at the decentralized level various local emergencies. Thus the best performance of the Japanese economy seems to depend on factors such as ethics and the centrality of the small group the loyalty of employees to the company and the paternalistic attitude of the company toward workers.