The company plans to use the money to invest overseas.

Last year Japan brought home $36.6 billion more than it invested overseas.

"It was unusual that they were investing so much of their capital overseas."

For similar reasons, virtually every American movie exhibition company is investing overseas.

It is a pure environmental play and had about 45 percent of its assets invested overseas last year.

That would be bad news for other countries, because it means Japan is less likely to import foreign products or to invest overseas.

"Mutual funds are the one smart way to invest overseas."

Of those, three invest overseas, "allowing me to target the area with the most potential," he said.

Of course, most Americans do not invest directly overseas.

At the end of the 1990's, people were asking what the point was of investing overseas, because we do everything better here.