A few days after the collapse of Yamaichi Securities in November, Jun Ashida, designer of Japanese Empress Michiko’s clothes, sent his personnel director to Yamaichi’s head office to look over some of the soon to be unemployed staff of Japan’s number-four brokerage firm. Writing on the front page of the Nikkei, Japan’s leading financial daily, Ashida was brimming with praise for the 7,400 Yamaichi staff who were still at their desks even though their firm was no longer in business.
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