1.   The bank will determine whether to change its monetary stance, Matsushita said, only if it determines that the current economic standstill will continue.

2.   Most of corporate Japan has closed for the entire week, giving workers a break from trying to pull the country out of its economic standstill.

3.   The euro is about to become a collective indicator of the economic standstill of continental Europe and especially a symbol above all of the German fear of anything new.

4.   He warned that the economic standstill would be prolonged if Japan fails to achieve the targets set in the mid-term economic plan.