1.   Solomon said the weaker yen is likely to start weighing on earnings.

2.   Amid intensifying competition in the domestic auto market, the weaker yen is giving Japanese manufacturers a clear edge overseas by making their products cheaper, analysts said.

3.   And he must squeeze profits out of a balance sheet that is not expected to continue enjoying major benefits from cost-cutting and a weaker yen.

4.   And the influential Vice Finance Minister Eisuke Sakakibara seemed to reverse position when he said late Monday that he would support a weaker yen.

5.   And the Japanese government may continue to encourage a weaker yen because it would make its exporters more competitive abroad.

6.   And the weaker yen will continue to hobble other currencies.

7.   And the weaker yen has yet to boost industrial production, MITI officials said.

8.   And with the yen weaker, import prices have also risen, hurting wholesalers.

9.   Any increase in sales as a result of the weaker yen will come from local production, not a jump in exports, he said.

10.   As a reward, he added, the U.S. may tolerate a weaker yen.