Shares in Asia also closed down sharply, with Japan's main Nikkei index suffering its biggest one-day drop since the 1987 stock market crash and Hong Kong's Hang Seng slumping to a three-year low.
The market selloff continued in early trading Tuesday in Asia, with Japan down 1.3%, Korea down 0.5% and Australia down 0.8%.
Most Asian indexes plunged on Wednesday, with Japan's Nikkei down 3.4% and China's Hang Seng index down 5.4%.
She had turned down an earlier request for a meeting with Japan last month, citing a tight schedule.
Property firms were also dragging in Japan, with Tokyu Land down 3.8% and Tokyo Tatemono off 4.2%.
At the end of last week Japan sent two of its most modern warships to the Sea of Japan with orders to shoot down any missiles fired by North Korea towards the Japanese islands.
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Japan is within range of these rockets and has been taking precautions, including setting up batteries of US-made Patriot anti-missile systems around the capital and sending two warships to the Sea of Japan, with orders to shoot down any missiles fired towards the Japanese islands.
The MSCI index of Asia Pacific stocks outside Japan was down 1.1 percent , with industrials and commodity-related stocks underperforming the most.
Japan had also threatened to shoot down the rocket with land-based batteries if it seemed to endanger its territory.
China's purchases of American Treasury bonds, along with purchases by Japan, have helped to hold down yields and hence American mortgage rates.
Asian exchanges also fell, with China's Shanghai Composite ending down 0.6% and Japan's Nikkei Stock Average closing 0.8% lower.
He remarks how all the countries which had those kinds of investment-driven growth miracles have always ended up with debt problems, and believes China risks going down the same path as Japan.
Traditional geopolitical relationships would be turned upside down, with such resource-poor and technology-rich countries as Israel and Japan suddenly able to achieve energy self-sufficiency, while the oil-producing dictatorships would finally have to face the consequences of decades of squandered wealth.
Fujii, along with Japan's prime minister, Yuki Hatoyama, have been talking down the yen ever since.
With Wales due to tour Japan next summer, when the Lions are down under, their other concern was who will lead that party.
It has turned down talks with America under cover of a regional dialogue that would involve South Korea, Japan, China and Russia too.
Political forces may be forcing the Bank of Japan to loosen dramatically in order to bring down the yen in line with the other big easy-money regimes.
This has dragged down other Asian currencies such as those of South Korea and Taiwan, which compete with Japan for high-value exports, such as technology products, Thin said.
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The U.S. and Japan are taking no chances, however, positioning ships in the Pacific and the Sea of Japan with the capability of tracking ballistic missiles as well as shooting them down if need be.
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Our report coincides with Japan's Golden Week national holiday, when much of the country shuts down for several days.
The 58-year-old former central banker recently sat down with me in New York during his annual investor's road show that takes him to Japan, the U.S. and Europe.
Japan's gold market is heating up after the Bank of Japan said last week that it would flood the economy with new money, pushing down the value of the yen against the dollar and other major currencies and pushing up the value of gold in Japan.
As publishers add titles to their lists (66, 000 new titles were published in Japan in 1998, compared with 48, 000 in 1993), production runs are coming down.
Down 2-0, supposedly the most dangerous lead in the sport, with a half-hour to play, Japan stepped up its attacks, creating chaos in front of the U.S. goal before Yuki Ogimi knocked in the ball from two yards out.
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