The Japanese are back -- to buy firms and assets of the US and others

International Expansion has seen this before. It is not so 

much the strength of the Yen, but the weakness of the Dollar.

Look what the WSJ says:

BY MARIKO SANCHANTA, TAKASHI NAKAMICHI AND KAZUHIRO SHIMAMURA

TOKYO—In a tacit admission that the Japanese government is impotent when it comes to weakening the yen, the country's prime minister and finance minister have shifted gears and are now urging the country's companies to use the strong currency as an opportunity to snap up foreign firms and assets.

In a rare show of vocal support for the surging yen, Japan's finance minister emphasized Monday that the strong yen has "advantages," urging domestic companies to use it to buy foreign firms and assets.

 

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