Came across this article that shows at least for the investor their is going to be boom times.http://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Tokyo-Market/Japan-listed-firms-to-pay-record-stock-dividends-in-fiscal-2014Japanese listed companies this fiscal year are expected to pay a record 7.4309 trillion yen ($61.9 billion) in stock dividends, up 520 billion yen from the previous record of 6.9027 trillion yen, reached last fiscal year. The total is nearly five times the roughly 1.6 trillion yen Japanese banks paid in interest to depositors in fiscal 2013.Related story on record company profitshttp://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Tokyo-Market/Corporate-Japan-s-profits-seen-scaling-new-heights-this-fiscal-year