Word: kanno
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Japan, summed up the frantic day in Asia. "Investor sentiment is in panic," Kanno said over the prospect of the spreading financial crisis dragging the global economy into a severe recession. The latest economic indicators are fueling this loss of confidence. For example, Japan's corporate bankruptcies jumped 34% in September, the largest increase since 2000, according to Tokyo Shoko Research...
...world's best performers so far this year. Foreign investors have rushed in, becoming net buyers of Japanese stocks for 22 consecutive weeks through mid-September, pumping just under $48 billion into the market since May. "It has been such a dramatic change in investor psychology," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JP Morgan in Tokyo. But considering Japan's history of false-start recoveries over the past decade, the nagging question remains: Is this rebound for real...
...exchange rates "should stably reflect fundamentals" and that he would "take action to make sure that happens," Tanigaki hasn't yet demonstrated how much, if at all, he will allow the yen to rise. "People are waiting to see if he tests a new level," says JP Morgan's Kanno...
...members of: construction, agriculture or health care. Change is coming in dribs and drabs, but usually only after a prolonged fight. Liquor licenses will be fully deregulated next September, and telecommunications opened up a few years ago to a fair degree of success. "There is movement," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist for JP Morgan in Tokyo, "but it is too little, too slow...
...Director Nakata, like his characters, makes some missteps. Too many of his scares depend on Kuroki's or Kanno's agonizingly long head turns?a stilted device that feels like little more than Hitchcock-by-numbers. The film's climax?unsurprisingly, it involves a lot of water?is marred by an implausible and unnecessary epilogue. It makes you wonder if Nakata is weary of the horror genre?or, perhaps, is evolving beyond it. Suspenseful as it is, Dark Water is more successful as a portrait of the bond between a single mother and her child in alienating urban Japan...