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Strategies & Market Trends : JAPAN-Nikkei-Time to go back up? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2040)	9/1/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: borb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3902

Good artical. If Japan is not prepared, I wonder, how many Asian countries are Y2K ready? If PC is the only problem in Japan, I will not worry too much. I have not downloaded Y2K solution from website for my PC yet.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2040)	9/2/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: Professor Dotcomm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3902

Thanks for your useful post. I wonder if you saw the news report a week or two back on the 'dry run' they had in Tokyo with the GPS boxes many Japanese have in their cars to find their way around Tokyo. Apparently the GPS database 'expired' after a 20 year life. At this time a new chip has to be inserted. In spite of a three year campaign to get owners to get their GPS units updated, about 35,000 Japanese found blank screens staring at them in their cars! Y2K awareness may be similarly affected although much of Japanese technology postdates the Y2K problem (for example all video games consoles are Y2K compliant simply because they were developed after 1993). If they get more conscious, retrofitting may help their industry - as it has helped North American manufacturers.