This is not just a Japanese problem: elderly American managers hardly queue up to support foreigners taking over their employers.
High costs are not a concern for Japanese banks, so cost-reducing mergers will do little to nurse them to health.
We're not talking about a Japanese-style eyewink at genuinely bad loans but an easing up on loans that are still being serviced by customers.
His main theme is the imperative for the government of putting the promotion of economic growth at the heart of everything it does, to re-engineer the British economy so that it does not stagnate in a Japanese way forever.
Yet even after being born and raised in Japan, graduating from a top Japanese university, and now becoming a State Minister appointee, Renho is not without detractors as a naturalized citizen in Japanese society.
It is not a lesson that comes naturally in a Japanese context.
Nor is the country on the verge of financial crisis and even if share and house prices do collapse, the result is likely to be a pause, not a prolonged period of Japanese-style stagnation (see article).
Any purchases financed by a pool of existing reserves will not have a weakening effect on the Japanese exchange rate.
Mr Brockman said the idea that the Spitfires were hidden to stay out of enemy hands was not necessarily correct because Japanese forces would have not been in a position to use them at that point.
All the central bank is doing is promising inflation, not protecting Japanese businesses against a permanently strengthening yen.
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It is not too late for a proactive Japanese foreign policy in Asia.
That's not just a problem for the Japanese, as Bush well knows.
That was a singular choice for the California-born son of a Swedish-American mother and a Japanese-American father, though maybe not such a strange one, given his rich family heritage.
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That is fine if it is in a bank's home currency, but not so fine if, for instance, a Japanese bank needs dollars in New York.
To preserve his anonymity, he makes it a point not to appear on Japanese TV programs.
The problem is not simply a financial one, whereby Japanese subsidiaries located in Thailand have sustained a loss.
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Although foodies make pilgrimages to Hong Kong for Cantonese staples such as dim sum and barbecued pork, top-quality French or Japanese has not been a draw.
One Brazilian executive with a European manufacturer says that the government will not lower the tariffs until the Japanese invest locally on such a scale that they will supply the market that way.
Even a worse Japanese recession need not scupper the world economy.
Moreover, a deeper Japanese recession would not be qualitatively very different, so far as Europe and America are concerned, from the experience of the past six years.
Experts in vaccine research say patients in the U.S. should not be alarmed by a decision by the Japanese health ministry to stop giving children two commonly Used vaccines, Prevenar and ActHIB.
Unlike Germany, where decades of intensive Holocaust-sensitivity education has relegated Nazism to a fringe skinhead culture, in Japan a majority of Japanese are not really sure whether what they did in Nanking was right or wrong.
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Paradoxically, knowledge of the local language, like Japanese or Mandarin, is not a prerequisite for effective communications for organizational development.
In addition, Ceradyne was able to set its own performance targets and would not be identified as a subsidiary of its new Japanese owner.
Given heightened regional tensions, it seems absurd that Abe and other conservatives are seeking dignity in denial and implying that Japanese aggression was justifiable and not a colossal catastrophe.
They haven't really explained to themselves, let alone to others, why and how their soldiers behaved in such abominable ways during the war with China and, as a result, the Japanese have not really come to terms with that past.
As a result, Japanese firms could yet find themselves facing union bolshiness of a kind they have not seen in 50 years.
It is also indicative of a flexibility and entrepreneurialism not commonly associated with the Japanese.
That turned out to be a false alarm, and not entirely because of Japanese missteps.
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