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To: Labrador who wrote (2815)	12/24/1999 10:11:00 AM
From: Labrador	Respond to of 6020

03:34 [SFBNF] SOFTBANK, OSAKA STOCK EXCHANGE TO START NASDAQ JAPAN END OF JUNE

To: Labrador who wrote (2815)	12/24/1999 10:48:00 AM
From: LOGAN12	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6020

OT Labrador, that's a good question. You will probably get a variety of answers on this thread. There are assortment of mutual funds for your picking. I have found FJSCX (Fidelity small cap Japan fund) to be excellent, so far that is. It is up 200+ % for the year. linda

To: Labrador who wrote (2815)	12/24/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Respond to of 6020

I remain dubious about the Japanese economy as a whole but certainly information processing, telecommunications, internet etc. will grow rapidly there as elsewhere. So if you could invest in a mutual fund that specializes in those things and not in OTC shares generally, you should make money. Come to think of that, isn't SOFTBANK a proxy for a mutual fund in the internet? I'm dubious because every one of my friends in Japan is saving like mad and holding back the spending. There's a general sense of an impending economic earthquake, which may only be local, in "my company" affecting "my job" but when everybody is thinking that way it sure holds down the economy. Also nobody thinks the banks have faced up completely to their bad loans in the bubble period. Some of these bad loans were to gangsters or to unscrupulous characters who have hired gangsters to resist foreclosure.