31.   Fidelity hopes to use its marketing and customer-service savvy to compete with Japanese firms selling investment trusts.

32.   First, the prices of Japanese assets finally fell enough to make Japanese firms look attractive to foreigners.

33.   For example, Ross Perot and other U.S. politicians have bitterly attacked the huge sums Japanese firms spend on influence-peddling in Washington.

34.   Foreign diplomats, employees of Japanese firms in Peru, and Peruvians of Japanese ancestry were guests.

35.   For instance, the processing plant in Britain, funded by Japanese firms among others, is now idling away.

36.   For the big Japanese firms that still dominate the normal consumer-electronics market, this threat looks all the more potent because their traditional market looks so weak.

37.   Granted, the problem was not L-tryptophan itself but impurities that crept in during manufacturing by one Japanese firm.

38.   He sold the futures and bought the underlying bonds, making enormous profits for Salomon and upsetting established Japanese firms like Yamaichi and Nomura Securities.

39.   He tells of a Japanese firm that was delivering customized bicycles in three to four days.

40.   Higher rates in Japan often bolster the yen by making it more attractive for Japanese firms to invest their money at home.