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...Things are looking so rosy, in fact, that the BOJ has begun to fret that the biggest danger is that the economy will expand too rapidly. BOJ policy-board member Kiyohiko Nishimura has warned that low rates could promote "useless, excessive investment," and Fukui has vowed to raise rates "without delay" should investment become rampant. Those fears may be coming to pass. Last week's much-watched Tankan business-sentiment survey indicated that Japan's largest companies plan to increase investment at the quickest pace in 16 years. "The Tankan survey showed the economic climate is slightly overheated," says Takeo...
...country may also be staring at an internal demographic time bomb that will make efficiency and productivity all the more pressing in just a few years. Japan's working population peaked in 1997 at 67.9 million people and is predicted to decline to 60 million by 2025. Kiyohiko Fukushima, chief economist of the Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo, reads the demographic tea leaves and deduces that Japan's working population will dwindle so dramatically in the years ahead that the country will face an unprecedented shortage of workers?rendering much of society's current fears about unemployment moot. Japan will...
...studies demonstrate that radiation-associated excess risk from cancer or other diseases persists for at least 50 years, and strongly suggest that this elevated risk continues throughout life. Our data do not show that atom-bomb survivors are living longer than comparable, unexposed groups. DALE PRESTON, Chief, Statistics Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Chief, Epidemiology Radiation Effects Research Foundation Hiroshima...
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