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...country hit the skids in the 1990s. Threatened by cheap labor and more efficient business models, Japanese companies began adopting American management concepts such as merit-based pay and job competition. "The Japanese equated globalism with not just the American way of business but with rejecting their past," says Jun Ishida, CEO of Tokyo-based business consultancy Will PM. "No more drinking sessions, no more company events. Suddenly it was about the individual out for himself and only himself...
...painful, but necessary. Moreover, during the 20-minute press conference, he wholly ignored the subject of constitutional amendment, and mentioned his other favorite subject, North Korean abductions, only after a reporter's prompting. "I believe the new cabinet has appropriate people placed in appropriate places," he told reporters. Jun Iio, a political science professor at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, agrees, but says it will take more than that to restore Abe's luster: "Credibility can't be gained by a mere personnel change...
...debate among economists now is whether another move by China's central bank to raise interest rates - which have already been hiked three times in the past year - will ease growth and inflation. Much depends on the next monthly inflation report, which will indicate whether, as Jun Ma, chief economist for greater China at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong believes, price rises peaked in July and will now recede. Ma notes that certain key produce prices fell by about 1% in early August, and thus the central bank "doesn't need to overreact...
...which found an association between medical abortion and a nearly threefold greater risk of ectopic pregnancy - a condition that accounts for about 9% of all pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. "We were kind of concerned, and we wanted to either confirm or refute these previous findings," says Dr. Jun Zhang, a senior investigator and epidemiologist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and co-author of the current study, because "the number of women who have had medical abortions is staggering both worldwide...
...skids in the 1990s. Threatened by cheap labor and more efficient business models, Japanese companies began adopting American management concepts such as merit-based pay and competition among employees. "The Japanese equated globalism with not just the American way of business, but with rejecting their past," says Jun Ishida, CEO of Tokyo-based business consultancy Will PM. "No more drinking sessions, no more company events. Suddenly it was about the individual out for himself and only himself...