Resources

For investments:

Yahoo! Finance: www.finance.yahoo.com
Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.comNASDAQ: www.nasdaq.com
Stock Charts Dynamic Yield Curve: http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/yieldcurve.html
The Street: http://www.thestreet.com
CBOE: http://www.cboe.com

For economics and stats:

The Economist: www.economist.com
The World Bank: www.worldbank.org
The IMF: http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
The CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/index.html
U.S. Department of Labor: http://www.dol.govU.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau,: http://www.census.govEconomic Research: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/NAPM/


For Japan economics and stats: 

=Japanese trade and investment= 
http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/reports/statistics/ 

=Japan's current account, balance of payment, price, and Tankan=
http://www.boj.or.jp/en/statistics/index.htm/

=Japan's population, labor, price, and income=
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/

=Japan's industrial production=
http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/index.html