No. 14 — April 7, 2000

Feature Article

THE KEIRETSU SYSTEM: CRACKLING OR CRUMBLING?

Douglas Ostrom

• Summary
• Introduction
• Financial Keiretsu
• Nonfinancial Keiretsu
• Causes Of Keiretsu
• Effects Of Keiretsu
• Recent Trends In Keiretsu
• Net-batsu?
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Weekly Review

• Obuchi's Stroke, Liberal Party's Split Cause Short-Lived Political Upheaval
  --- by Barbara Wanner
• Tankan, Other Data Suggest Japan Not Yet Out Of Economic Woods
  --- by Douglas Ostrom
• Tokyo Share Prices Begin FY 2000 On The Upswing
  --- by Jon Choy
• Notes
  • Balkan Aid
  • Telecomunications And Deregulation

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