21.   Japanese corporations used to search the backgrounds of potential employees to make sure there was no trace of burakumin heritage.

22.   Japanese corporations are also putting an increasing premium on showy funerals.

23.   Japanese corporations are restructuring in ways that will make them more efficient.

24.   Japanese corporations should disclose information about earnings of subsidiaries in as much details as they do for parent company results, an advisory panel to the Finance Ministry recommended.

25.   Japanese corporations, including automakers and consumer electronics manufacturers, convert their export revenue into yen.

26.   Last September, with her fellow Sumitomo plaintiffs, she attended the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing where flyers were distributed denouncing the sexism of the Japanese corporations.

27.   Machinery orders are a good indication of the degree of capital expenditure Japanese corporations are undertaking.

28.   Many Japanese corporations, like Kajima, that do business in Asia may feel obliged to settle to avoid tarnishing their reputations in places like China and South Korea.

29.   One of the worst nightmares of American officials is a selloff of U.S. Treasury bonds by cash-needy Japanese corporations.

30.   Promotion at established Japanese corporations tends to come slowly as employees work their way up through the ranks.