71.  As Japanese companies move production facilities overseas, these costs will likely increase, Sasaki-Smith said.

72.  As it is, Japanese companies will dominate the production of digital videodiscs, the technology that could soon replace the CD and the videotape.

73.  As Korea and Japan struggle to solve their problems, Korean and Japanese companies are reducing their investments in Southeast Asia.

74.  As European and Japanese companies in turn embark on some overdue downsizing, they should remember three American lessons.

75.  As these profits shrink, banks in turn may need to reduce their asset base by cutting back on lending to Japanese companies, escalating a credit crunch.

76.  Asahi stands to benefit by getting its beer distributed throughout Latin America, where Japanese companies have had less success, Horvath said.

77.  As the yen strengthens, Japanese companies get less competitive and their profit outlook weakens.

78.  At ABB, a multinational corporation with a plant in Jefferson City, Japanese industrial companies are buying fewer transformers.

79.  As vice chairman of the Blackstone Group, a Wall Street firm partly owned by Japanese, Altman represented Japanese companies as they acquired American operations.

80.  At that point, Rockefeller Center had slipped into bankruptcy and the Japanese company that owned the complex had walked away from what it thought was a losing investment.