If a lack of progress causes investors in Brazil's debt to lose their patience and the country's financial crisis worsens, the joyous public mood could quickly turn sour.
Concern had been growing that the world's financial markets were losing patience with Mr Hashimoto and that a lack of confidence in Japan would continue to weaken the yen and cause the Nikkei stockmarket index to plunge even deeper.
It will allow a computer to learn how to match cells from one slice to another by trial and error, as a human would, but with the infinite patience that humans lack.