Japanese Stocks You Might Encounter on a Trip to Japan

Japanese stocks: 1) Alcohol, Beverage & Food Stocks; 2) Airline & Airport Stocks; 3) Hotel & Tourism Stocks; 4) Japanese Railway Stocks; 5) Restaurant Stocks; and 6) Retail Stocks.

This post (a companion post to Japan Trip Report (Plus Japanese Stocks) and Recent Japan Investing Research) covers some Japanese stocks you might encounter on a trip to Japan. Note that many of these stocks are keiretsu - a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. For example: Japanese railroad stocks often own hotels, entertainment facilities, retail, do property development, etc. The railway lines though would be at the core of their businesses and corporate strategy.

Other Japanese stocks are sogo shosha or general trading companies that trade in a wide range of products and materials. In addition to acting as intermediaries, they engage in logistics, plant development and other services, as well as international resource exploration. Unlike trading companies in other countries, which are generally specialized in certain types of products, sogo shosha have extremely diversified business lines - a business model unique to Japan.

Stocks covered in this post (organized by industry) will include:

• A heading with the stock name.

• A quick description of the stock pick with links to the IR page and stock quote(s) on Yahoo! Finance.

• A link to any Wikipedia page (for what it might be worth…)

• Forward or trailing P/E and dividend yields linked back to the Yahoo! Finance statistics page.

• The latest long term technical chart linked back to Yahoo! Finance.

This post is organized as follows:

• Japan Investing Resources & Research

• Japanese Stocks You Might Encounter on a Trip to Japan

  • Japanese Alcohol, Beverage & Food Stocks