91.  At times like these, Japanese companies are forced to make their money in the domestic market, where their income is in yen, not in devalued dollars.

92.  ATR, a Japanese company, was one of the companies that tackled the problem.

93.  Babcock said it will give the Japanese company an option to buy the rest of the unit within the next five years.

94.  Bankruptcies are mounting while corporate earnings, exports and asset values are falling, all of which constrain the ability of Japanese companies to repay their debts.

95.  Bankruptcies are mounting while corporate earnings, exports and asset values are falling, all of which constrains the ability of Japanese companies to repay their debts.

96.  Because of the strong yen, prices on their luxury cars have already soared, forcing the Japanese companies to return customers to the reinvigorated European auto makers.

97.  Because producing abroad is often cheaper, many Japanese companies are shipping goods back home from plants in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

98.  Banks and other Japanese companies were banned from setting up holding companies after World War II to prevent them from accruing too much power.

99.  Before Japanese companies close books at the end of March, they often repatriate their overseas assets into yen.

100.  Bonds have been buffeted this week as the failure of Yamaichi Securities Co. heightened concern about sales of Treasuries by Japanese companies or the Japanese government.