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...Also on Sept. 22, another Japanese bottom fisher took a step it had been preparing for since spring, when Kenichi Watanabe, CEO of Nomura Holdings, began raising a $5.6 billion war chest to increase his firm's international footprint. Tokyo's biggest investment bank said it would buy the Asia operations of Lehman Bros., the bankrupt Wall Street firm, and was in negotiations to take over its European operations as well. The $225-million deal saves the jobs of about 3,000 Lehman employees, some of whom expressed surprise as well as relief that they might keep their jobs...
...leadership and independence. After growing relatively briskly over the last five years, Japan's economy now appears to be slipping into a malaise and possibly a recession. "Muto is seen to be close to the government and to the Ministry of Finance," says Lehman Brothers chief economist for Japan Kenichi Kawasaki. "You can imagine Muto's potential sympathy toward those you might call his schoolmates." Although he calls Muto a "smart, top MOF guy," Kawasaki added he is "more like a lawyer than an economist...It's a pity that there's not a stronger candidate...
...each of their countries. The hope for a concerted effort by banks to lower interest rates in Europe and Japan, for example, simply won't happen. "The fact is that the European Central Bank faces inflation risk and the Bank of Japan won't move either way," says Kenichi Kawasaki, Lehman Brothers' chief economist for Japan, last Thursday...
...hopes for gold, the elegant Japanese scored five clean triples and a signature back-bend to notch a personal-best score of 125.32 in the long program. Slutskaya, who skated last, was no match and came in third behind Cohen. "One gold is worth 10 bronzes," a jubilant Kenichi Chizuka, head of Japan's Olympic delegation, told reporters in Torino. The national nightmare had finally ended...
Though it has only been applied to the part of the animal brain that deals with vision, the technique is expected to be extended to other uses in the next two years, according to research fellow Kenichi Ohki, the primary developer of the project methods...