21.   Japan has struggled to recover from a five-year downturn, its longest in the postwar period.

22.   Japan shut down Hanwa Bank this morning in the first government closure of a Japanese bank in the postwar period, the Finance Ministry said.

23.   Japanese bureaucrats have been extremely good at administrative tinkering to stay the course they set out in the immediate postwar period.

24.   Not surprisingly, German politics in the immediate postwar period was resolutely nonideological.

25.   No part of the world has grown so rapidly and dynamically in the postwar period as Asia.

26.   Speculation over a delay to the common currency would lure investors back to Germany, the European country with the best record on fighting inflation in the postwar period.

27.   Some of the men and women who lived through World War II say they see less love of God and country than during the war and postwar period.

28.   Surely full recompense is due now that the history of this gold is clear and the economic and political pressures of the postwar period are just a memory.

29.   That strategy is about the only one that has not been tried, but it has been taboo because it recalls the postwar period of hyperinflation.

30.   The advance of the state during much of the postwar period not only squeezed the functions of the voluntary sector, it also undermined its funding.