What to do with such loans was, as at all Japanese banks, a huge headache.
Government data does show about half of all Japanese vehicles have navigation systems.
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Almost all Japanese houses are individually commissioned by the owner and constructed by small firms using nonstandard materials and methods.
The Japan premium, the extra rate which all Japanese banks must pay to borrow in foreign currencies, has fallen only a bit.
Although it is solid enough, by Japanese standards, in corporate lending, like all Japanese banks MTFG faces a hard time making decent returns.
The stigma of illegitimacy, combined with the relative ease with which an abortion can be obtained, means that almost all Japanese children are born to married couples.
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If Ichiro gets to 3, 000, it would solidify his case for induction into the Hall of Fame, which would be the ultimate validation for Ichiro and all Japanese position players.
As I anticipated in my post before the market opened this morning, Boeing shares have taken a drubbing following news of the grounding of all Japanese-owned 787s last night.
The Chinese investors are starting with smaller investments in Japan and analyzing the market: more than half of all Japanese companies so far targeted by Chinese investors are SMEs with annual sales of less than JPNY1 billion.
Kinokuniya America, a bookstore chain whose stores gets weekly shipments from Japan, last month announced a 15% discount on all Japanese books sold in its seven U.S. locations, in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.
Since last November, when the collapse of Hokkaido Takushoku Bank undermined confidence in all Japanese banks, Norinchukin has played a key role in preventing total meltdown, by lending money on to those big banks that the market considers too risky.
He added a minor in ceramics and resolved to meet all those Japanese potters he'd read about in class and see all those Rauschenberg abstracts he now revered.
Certainly any local edge that big Japanese agencies might once have been able to claim has gone: the western agencies in Japan all employ Japanese copywriters who are just as good at churning out the surreal ads that Japanese consumers like.
Mr Omura, less prone to hyperbole, says that all big Japanese cities are in a struggle to compete with the likes of Shanghai, so why should Tokyo have all the advantages?
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Perhaps most surprising of all, Japanese firms are hunting abroad for new technology, traditionally their strong suit.
The graph shows relative shares of holdings of all listed Japanese equities (from 2004 including Jasdaq listings) since 1988.
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What is very interesting about it is that today all those Japanese cultural advantages are looked upon as disadvantages.
Many, if not all, Japanese schools in China are suspending classes and telling students to stay home until the situation calms.
Almost all the Japanese firms are wholesalers (323 or 53%), including trading firms (the Chinese need Japanese retail networks to distribute their goods).
In part, critics like Mr Kono and Mr Shiozaki are venting the sorts of frustrations felt by ambitious, younger people in all traditional Japanese organisations.
That was all the Japanese public was told too, when, finally, 22 hours after he was admitted to hospital, the government issued the first public health bulletin.
Since fall, the wildlife fund and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found refrigerators, freezers, buoys and even an intact fishing boat, all with Japanese text.
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Mr. EISENSTEIN: Well, not all the Japanese manufacturers have.
Super Aguri, the first all-Japanese team on the Western-dominated circuit, have struggled for financial support since being founded in late 2005 by Aguri Suzuki, the first Asian to stand on an F1 podium.
But I have read a thing or two about cultural relativity and I'm pretty sure that we need to chill on the criticism of all things Japanese before we lose sight of ourselves.
The government wants to introduce an American-style green-card scheme, but it seems implausible that it would allow in enough foreign workers to make up for the demographic shortfall, even if they all learned Japanese: by some estimates that would require about 600, 000 immigrants a year.
All in all, the Japanese preference for sticking with bank or post-office deposits seems entirely rational.
Nor, it should be emphasized, are proposals to cut expenses coming from politicians, least of all from the Japanese Democrats.
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