Dear Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda: Last month your ministry published "Current Policies to Make Japan Asia's Center for Business."
In the PowerPoint presentation available on your website, you note that from 2007 to 2009 Japan slipped badly as an Asian business investment destination for Western and Asian companies, while unsurprisingly, China made huge gains.
Now we all know there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics, but these are your statistics, so presumably you've had your people present these numbers in the best possible light.