Word: kabutocho
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...trading day on the Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public in the benefits of owning stocks...
Tokyo's Kabutocho, accustomed to the prewar idea of stocks held closely by the Zaibatsu financial combines, at first scoffed at Okumura, and occupation forces took a dim view of his plan to set up investment trusts that would operate somewhat like U.S. mutual funds. But Japan's amazing postwar resurgence proved fertile ground for Okumura's ideas. "I am the world's most stubborn man," says Okumura, "when I decide that I want something and meet opposition." Many Japanese companies now prefer to sell shares to raise money rather than to ask the once...