Noriko Hama Quotations

It is cynical. He is clearly exploiting this male-female issue in a media-savvy way that plays into his desire to be seen as a reformer but belittles the role of women.

Lifestyles became much more modest, looking for cheap bargains. Deflation penetrated society.

It is a very inefficient working economy, in that respect, that the pool of talents is there but the antiquated system refuses to tap into it.

I think it's a pretty disastrous situation for them although it has been a disaster waiting to happen. At least they foresaw the problem this time but the fact that the system was about to crash is a problem.

At the height of the bubble people used to go to expensive and luxurious restaurants, to drink a lot of tremendously expensive champagne.

The up-and-coming business people who looked to his model could, I suppose, be put off taking risks, but I also think it might work the other way and unite people in their dislike of the establishment.

The Japanese economy was suffering from the Luciano Pavarotti syndrome.