11.   Called sokaiya, these blackmailers thrive on the secrecy in which Japanese corporations enshroud themselves.

12.   Credit-rating agencies have also expressed reservations, and financial news coverage has been muted on what would be a major foreign rescue of a leading Japanese corporation.

13.   Figures released just Tuesday, meanwhile, showed a marked decline in capital spending by Japanese corporations.

14.   Faced with rising costs at home and the prospect of a shrinking labor force, Japanese corporations have been moving their operations offshore at a blistering pace.

15.   He is Scottish, which would make him one of the few foreigners ever to run a large Japanese corporation.

16.   In fact, Genoa would not likely have given Miura a chance except a Japanese corporation paid his contract.

17.   Indeed, wild currency swings and the uncertain direction of the yen are keeping many Japanese corporations and pension funds from moving into foreign securities.

18.   Indeed, topnotch Japanese corporations are far from becoming extinct dinosaurs, and teamwork will long remain the Japanese way.

19.   Japanese corporations and investors are adding the Republic of South Africa to their list of promising markets for investment and trade.

20.   Japanese corporations are group-oriented, with hierarchical structures.