71.   The service is expected to benefit both tourism and business in Boston, including the mutual funds industry as it breaks into an emerging Japanese investment market.

72.   To be sure, not many traders expect the dollar to fall much against the yen, given low returns on Japanese investments.

73.   To be sure, when the yen strengthens, that erodes the value of Japanese investments in foreign currencies.

74.   Trade aides in diplomatic missions argue that the Asian crisis should lead to an increase in Japanese investment in Brazil.

75.   U.K. stocks surged to near record highs as bond and stock markets across Europe gained after the Japanese government announced measures to boost overseas investment by Japanese investment funds.

76.   Under Sakakibara, the Finance Ministry last August relaxed rules to encourage Japanese investment overseas.

77.   U.K. stocks rose to near record highs as bond and stock markets across Europe gained after the Japanese government announced measures to boost overseas investment by Japanese investment funds.

78.   While Chapman could hedge his Japanese investments to neutralize part of the currency risk, he is not doing so.

79.   Yesterday, the Ministry of Finance relaxed rules to encourage Japanese investment overseas, stoking speculation Japanese investors will sell yen for other currencies to buy foreign securities.

80.   Yet that may accelerate the shift of Japanese investment overseas, where brokerage transactions are not taxed, analysts said.