The USA economy can tip into a pattern that resembles Japanese style stagnation or it can redefine and reinvent itself.
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The statement in the Fukushima report says it all -- there is both strength and weakness to the Japanese style of management.
Nearby, the new 240-room Okura Prestige Bangkok oozes Japanese style and elegance, from its chic brown marble, wood- and copper-trimmed lobby to its dramatic rooftop infinity pool.
In true Japanese style, there's a TV aerial embedded within the side and while it won't broadcast the crisp high-definition delights of NOTTV, there's plenty of terrestrial viewing available -- if you stay in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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The design schemes feature contemporary cream-and-brown color palettes mixed with Eastern elements like calligraphy painted on the walls above the headboard, colorful Japanese-style pillows on the sofa and artwork Matsuhisa curated from up-and-coming Japanese artists.
Or are we about to enter a long Japanese-style period of economic stagnation?
And if the future is Japanese-style stagnation, there will be no demand for a hedge against inflation.
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The legitimate fear driving Bush's proposed package is that the U.S. could end up in a Japanese-style recession.
Resort facilities include a Pub with billiards, cabanas, a Japanese-style Furo soaking tub, and Fitness Center with Spa.
They wanted to preserve the U.S. from a Japanese-style funk following the bursting of the stock-market bubble in 2000--01.
By comparison with a Japanese-style malaise, even a traditionally painful, but finite, recession would seem like a lucky escape.
Use foreign comics as unusual wrapping paper, or use a furoshiki cloth, Japanese-style (try a napkin, scarf or handkerchief).
It has been aggressive in expanding abroad, while maintaining and building on the strengths of its particularly Japanese-style management culture.
There are many possible scenarios, including a continued gradual recovery, a double-dip recession, a Japanese-style stagflation, or a genuine depression.
Playing the game again also reinforces my belief that From Software really needs to make its own feudal Japanese-style game.
At best, bond investors will earn modest returns in a Japanese-style stagnation.
Wantful then sends an artfully-designed small booklet wrapped in Japanese-style rice paper in the mail, which looks almost like a wedding invitation.
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He thought that Japanese-style state-directed easy credit for Korea's chaebol (conglomerates) would allow them to expand indefinitely without worrying overmuch about profits.
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The Fed should ponder hard how to avoid a Japanese-style deflation here.
Germany, despite hints of a Japanese-style undertow, has just voted for stasis.
They are making "tea cups to cake stands to everything, 450 pieces in a beautiful raku, " a Japanese-style of pottery, Ms. Foppiani says.
We're not talking about a Japanese-style eyewink at genuinely bad loans but an easing up on loans that are still being serviced by customers.
Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii, says they are contemplating South Korean- or Japanese-style protectionism: red tape and other non-tariff barriers.
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This Japanese-style outdoor spa features 10 acres of calming scenery.
It will also slide into Japanese-style stagnation, dragging along emerging economies that have been thriving on its large and robust consumer market to sell their products I call it the Japanization of the world economy.
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Nor is the country on the verge of financial crisis and even if share and house prices do collapse, the result is likely to be a pause, not a prolonged period of Japanese-style stagnation (see article).
But with American households still in the process of deleveraging and with Europe in the early stages of what will most likely become a Japanese-style slow-motion depression, it looks less and less viable as a model for growth.
Mayumi Burnham, vice president of marketing at the company which makes Japanese-style dressings and sauces under the TonTon brand says the weaker yen has prompted her to consider buying more ingredients directly from Japan and attending more Japanese trade shows.
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