Word: noriko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market drop echoed around the world. In Tokyo, Noriko Hama, a senior staffer at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, warned that "it could be very hard to stop" the Wall Street plunge from sending ripples through foreign stock exchanges. Tokyo's volatile Nikkei index fell 445.02 points last Thursday, its sharpest drop since June. The index rebounded 320.97 points on Friday to close at 35,116.02, down 93.33 for the week...
...products, for example, and has opened its construction market to foreign bidders. Japan imported 48% more U.S.-made computers and office equipment in 1988 than in the previous year, and 55% more semiconductors and telecommunications equipment. "A massive structural change has taken place in the Japanese economy," says economist Noriko Hama of the Mitsubishi Research Institute. "We are much more import-oriented than we were a couple of years...