This essay argues that Japan, home to companies holding global market share across countless fields, should channel its ¥1,700 trillion in household assets into long-term investment and active participation in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

2016-04-26

Our country possesses groups of companies with outstanding technologies that hold global market share in virtually every field.

Make this a country in which 0.5 percent of daily trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange—an exchange sustained by all the companies that generated those assets—is投入ed into the market.

Make it a country in which 10 percent is invested in acquiring shares of the companies that Japan proudly presents to the world.

Not only is the stock market inherently a place where long-term investment is the true path,

but our country is one that possesses groups of companies with superior technologies that command global share in every conceivable field.

At its foundation, this is nothing less than a treasure built by workers of the world’s highest character—people who do not lie, who are diligent and sincere.

That is precisely why this culmination took shape as individual financial assets of ¥1,700 trillion, among the largest in the world.