And crawl it will, if Mr Ito is right, because Japan has abandoned reform.
Hiroki had to travel to the U.S., where he is awaiting a heart, because Japan prohibits organ transplants involving children.
Because Japan is a close friend and ally, and we will do everything we can to help them in this situation.
It refused to do so before, because Japan's three long-term credit banks relied for their financing on five-year debentures, even though two were nationalised.
So we need to watch Abe-san and what he does next because Japan is looking like the game changer that we have all been awaiting.
But scientists are also exploring the theory that it could be linked to diet because Japan does not appear to see as many cases as the West.
This is because Japan's battered financial institutions, mainly its banks and life insurers, want to buy only risk-free domestic assets, and because inflation is not considered likely.
Spot coal is up 20% this year, in part because Japan is buying more of it to replace the output of nuclear power stations that have recently gone offline.
That is because Japan's fifth-largest auto maker produces about 71% of its cars at home and exports roughly 80% of them, meaning a move in the currency can deliver a heavy blow or sudden windfall.
Japanese debt is unique to other countries because Japan has been indebted for the past two decades, its leverage didn't increase rapidly and the gap between Japan and others declined because other countries' debt-to-GDP ratio increased.
There have been fears that because Japan and South Korea compete in similar markets, Korean goods may lose out as a result of the currency moves and that such developments may also hurt South Korea's overall growth.
Tobu, a major railway operator in the Tokyo area, doesn't need the funds until June, when existing bonds are due, but it wasted no time in issuing 10-year bonds because Japan's new economic policy, dubbed "Abenomics, " is likely to lead to higher interest rates later.
New instruments and forms developed over the centuries, partly because of Japan's ongoing contact with her Asian neighbors.
Now the yen is one of the world's weakest currencies, not because Japanese companies lack competitiveness but because of Japan's financial problems.
And incidentally, that could have protected you from the great Japanese bubble because when Japan had its real estate and stock bubble, Japan got to be 50% of the world's capitalization.
East Asia's troubles will hurt Japan the most because the region buys a lot of Japan's exports and firms there have borrowed a lot from its already troubled banks.
American officials have concentrated on Japan because there they may actually have a chance of influencing policy.
During the first phase right after the earthquake it was impossible to promote Japan because of the significant damage.
Such a strategy is not possible in Japan because the sales agents, not the newspapers, control access to readers.
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Westerners, especially Americans, often misunderstand Japan because they naively think that every nation wants to have a U.S.-style, consumer-oriented system.
The Obama Administration has dismissed spent-fuel reprocessing systems already used in France and Japan because of security and environmental risks.
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"What Sawada is doing has served as a wake-up call for Japan because it challenges the old system, " says one airline executive.
Apple's iPhone has proved wrong skeptics who said the handset wouldn't resonate with consumers in Japan because it lacked many uniquely Japanese features.
For now, Ready is deferring plans to enter China and Japan because he views their banking and regulatory environments as difficult to penetrate.
On Wednesday All Nippon Airways canceled a domestic flight in Japan because of an error message on the braking system of a 787.
We know thousands of people are dying every year in Japan because this device isnt available, says Stephen Mahle, president of Medtronics Pacing Business division, which makes defibrillators.
Deming failed in America contrary to Japan because of that.
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In fact, its even more true for Japan because a weaker currency caused by printing money has major economic benefits for Japanese companies whom will now be able export more.
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Although the store is named Toy Tokyo, Mr. Levarek says he has been buying toys from U.S. and Chinese suppliers in recent years because importing from Japan has been too expensive.
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