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

To: Jack Kunkle who wrote (1345)	8/13/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3902

Here's my opinion of Japan's situation: MITI targeted key technologies and paved the way to making Japan a technological and economic powerhouse. Japan innovated with just-in-time management systems and adapted key electronic technologies from the West. Now Japan's strategy has been copied and adapted by other Asian countries -- South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, ... The US powered ahead with the leadership of Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, ... Japan lagged ... There is no simple fix. With China coming on line over the next five years, Japan will not be able to power her way out of this one.