Japan’s brokers: a protected species.

JAPAN'S BROKERS: A PROTECTED SPECIES

JAPAN’S BROKERS: A PROTECTED SPECIES

At the new Tokyo Stock Exchange building, an English-language sign in the visitors’ gallery reads: “Please be seated when eating.” Asked the significance of it, the tour guide had a ready answer. In the seated position, tourists are out of the floor traders’ line of sight. “The traders complained that being watched by people eating made them feel like animals in a zoo,” she added.

So is safeguarded the natural habitat of the world’s most prosperous protected species.

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