Its rivals are all merging, and Japan's clannish, inward-looking corporate culture makes that very hazardous.
Insurers have a remarkably inward-looking focus, with little effort expended to engage regulators, policymakers and others.
It hadn't been the first time that Cardinal Bergoglio had mentioned the inward-looking nature of the church.
Discussing the often "inward-looking" history of EU negotiations, Mr Gordon said that "referendums have often turned countries inward".
NATO, Mr Solana makes sure that nobody forgets him in the close-knit, inward-looking world of Spanish Socialist politics.
Its firms are giants that until now have been inward-looking but are starting to use their vast resources abroad.
Guyana became heavily indebted as a result of the inward-looking, state-led development model pursued in the 1970s and 1980s.
"The fact is that if the renamed constitution goes through we will have a more inward-looking Europe, " said Mr Hague.
Cultural historian Christopher Cook says the fundamental change is that these celebrations used to be family affairs, private and inward-looking.
In that period, Colombia has changed from an inward-looking country ruled by an oligarchical elite into an increasingly dynamic and urbanised democracy.
Nor does the community seem to be inward-looking or unwilling to assimilate.
The 1983 novel, by Graham Swift, from which the picture has been adapted is a determinedly inward-looking work: unpromising material for a film.
Under the project title "500 Wants You, " the hitherto inward-looking manufacturer invited ordinary people to submit ideas for designs on its Web site.
Silicon Valley was once so inward-looking that venture capitalists used to say they would not back a start-up unless they could cycle to its office.
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Americans might prefer to regard their country as an inward-looking place that periodically got dragged into the world's affairs through no fault of its own.
Slovenia's sleepy and inward-looking public institutions are certainly ripe for change.
The sprawling city risked disintegrating into a collection of inward-looking suburbs.
Rather it was to draw attention to the extraordinary and improbable power of self-interest: this stunted, inward-looking trait is transformed, through spontaneous social co-operation, into a force for the common good.
Three decades ago, Mexico had an inward-looking, oil-dominated economy.
The report, The Barriers to Choice in Public Services, looked at "whether inward-looking admissions criteria, for example by faith and super-selective schools, ought to be balanced by a broad duty to promote a social balance inside the school".
So what you're saying really is that Labour parties - not just the Labour Party, but local Labour parties - were too inward looking, were thinking about themselves and their own navels and not really what was going on around them?
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