Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JAPAN SYNDROME...
Inevitably, worries about Japan color the prospects of the whole region. And Japan was in trouble long before anyone even imagined that the words Asia and crisis could be used in the same sentence...
...developing Asia suffered from an acute, potentially lethal but short-lived fever, Japan suffers from a slow, wasting disease, the result not of the nation's vices but of its virtues. While there are many things wrong with Japan, the immediate problem is excessive thrift: Japanese households simply save more than the country's businesses can be persuaded to invest, even at a zero interest rate...
...Even many thoughtful conservatives agree with Clinton," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "Computing speed has increased exponentially, and unless U.S. regulations are updated, business will go to Japan or South Korea." There is even a national security rationale to allowing U.S. exports of better computers. If other countries like China use our computers, says Shannon, "it gives us a better understanding of how their systems work. We know the strength and limitations of our computers and how to get into them." The updated regulations will still keep top-of-the line, state-of-the-art, national security computers...
...built into the southwest corner of the sprawling Bronx Zoo, the 6.5-acre range is a magnificent exercise in environmental illusion. The leaves the gorillas are munching are willow, native to the U.S.; the strangler fig is really catalpa, a local species; the understory plant is butterbur, native to Japan; the fallen tree is made out of metal, mesh and layers of epoxy; and a few hundred yards from the recorded sounds of hornbills and monkeys, Latin music blares from a picnic on a sweltering June afternoon...