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...stately neo-baroque building in Tokyo, nine men may vote to end of one of the oddest periods in the history of central banking?and send one of the clearest signals yet that Japan's economy has finally emerged from 15 years of stagnation. Led by governor Toshihiko Fukui, the monetary-policy committee at the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will vote on whether to raise its overnight lending rate to 0.25% or leave it at zero, where it has been for more than five years. That shift would not just demonstrate that the BOJ believes the world's second largest...
...TOSHIHIKO FUKUI by Jim Frederick...
...open-road hours as a long-distance runner. Ruminating and running, Block, 46, looked as cool as an Illinois-grown cucumber as he glided across the finish line of the 85th Boston Marathon in 3 hr. 6 min. 49 sec. Still, Block was well to the rear of Toshihiko Seko, 24, a compact Japanese import who set a U.S. marathon record of 2:09:26, and New Zealander Allison Roe, 24, who came from down under and well back in the pack of 6,845 runners to set a new women's course record of 2:26:46. Block...
Japan is set apart from other industrial societies by its remarkable homogeneity. The boss and his employee share much more than a common heritage; they have many of the same points of view. TIME Correspondent S. Chang spent a day each with President Toshihiko Yamashita, 61, of the giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., and Yoshinobu Saito, 29, one of the firm's 1,600 sales engineers. His report...
...1960s, their trade policy was plainly protectionist. Since then, they claim, controls and regulations that hampered imports have been pulled down so far that they now have one of the most open domestic markets in the world. One reason U.S. companies still find that market so impenetrable, says Toshihiko Yano, formerly a top policymaker at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is that they have ample room to grow at home and do not "want to take the time and trouble involved in exports. They have got to make the effort." Echoes Yasuo Oki, a spokesman...