Relatively few Japanese have money in shares, either directly, or indirectly through investment trusts, Japan's version of mutual funds.
On April 1st Mr Nakabo becomes head of Japan's version of the Resolution Trust Corporation, the company set up to recover loans made by America's Savings-and-Loans institutions.
Thanks to high fixed commissions and little interest in building wealth for investors, customers were encouraged to buy and sell shares and investment trusts, Japan's version of mutual funds, as often as possible (a practice known as churning).
Greenspan mistakenly believes our once-exuberant stock market meant we were experiencing our version of Japan's 1980s bubble economy.
The Linux-based tablet just launched in Japan and the US version will come out in the second half of 2011.
Digit Wireless has also developed a version for Japan that allows the keyboard to represent the 120 characters of the country's languages.
The fund has gained a 19.7% compound annualized return since its inception in June 1998, compared with 6.6% for a hedged version of Japan's topix index.
"When you are the first one to get hold of a new gadget, it's important that people around you already know a little bit about the product and can recognize it, " said Toshiyuki Ueno, an engineer and technology consultant, who got an iPad last month in the U.S. and has a reservation to buy a 3G version in Japan.
Brazil, with its historical ties to Japan, has adopted a version of the 1seg system.
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The U.S.' and most of the world's economies have been suffering from a mild version of what Japan has been going through for more than a decade.
The PS3 version was critically acclaimed when it launched in Japan in November of last year, and early US impressions have been favorable.
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Keidanren, Japan's business lobby, recently floated a less ambitious version of the idea.
The team's two drivers, Takuma Sato of Japan and Britain's Anthony Davidson, drove a hybrid version of their 2007 car with several technical improvements last month.
An electric version of the iQ city car will arrive in Japan (as the eQ) and the US (as the iQ EV) this December, but the automaker is significantly scaling back its 2010 promises of several thousand cars sold per year to just 100 fleet-oriented vehicles.
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But the model version makes the simple beauty of the design, by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, eminently clear.
This commercial version of Menu Translator, which DOCOMO is trialing in Japan until October 31, will translate words and phrases not only in menus, but also street signs, signboards and more.
The 3DS LL, which will be known as the XL outside Japan, will have displays that are almost twice as big as those on the current version.
But Januvia isn't just a newer version of existing diabetes blockbusters like Avandia, from GlaxoSmithKline, and Actos, from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical .
This year Carrefour has pulled out of Japan and sold 29 hypermarkets in Mexico, where it could not compete with Walmex, the local version of Wal-Mart.
The eight chapters in the free version included an introduction to hiragana, chapters on greetings and a cultural interlude on the geography of Japan.
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