TOKYO, March 19 -- Imagine turmoil in financial and currency markets, with skidding stocks and a soaring currency that threatens an export-dependent nation. Then imagine that the nation's central bank -- the one institution capable of responding quickly in a global financial crisis -- has no Gree... -
World's No. 2 Economy Has Vacancy at Top
TOKYO, March 19 -- Imagine turmoil in financial and currency markets, with skidding stocks and a soaring currency that threatens an export-dependent nation. Then imagine that the nation's central bank -- the one institution capable of responding quickly in a global financial crisis -- has no Gree...-
By Blaine Harden