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THE DETROIT VOL. 3 NO. 46 75 CENTS CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND CONTRACTS ©TDSJ Sinking Japan’s economic woes ripple through By John Lear ago of a powerful Japan overtaking a Journal Tokyo Bureau declining United States, might be OKYO — With the recent tempted to see those woes as cause for sharp and rapid declines incelebration. the U.S. stock market, it’s not But like it or not, the economic fates hard to imagine that the wailof Japan and the United States are Ting of American investors couldintertwined. be The Pacific Rim, domi heard halfway around the globenated in by Japan, accounts for 27.5 per Japan. cent of U.S. trade; more than any But that wailing won’t generateother region, ahead of western Europe much sympathy in the world’s second-and of Canada. largest economy, where falling values of assets such as stocks and realU.S. economy feels the drag estate are old and unwelcome news. When the Japanese economic Consider that the Nikkei Stockengine, which drives Asia, sputters, Average, the benchmark of Japan’sthe prospects for a bigger global pie markets, recently dipped belowdiminish. That acts as a brake on the 14,000 points to its lowest mark powerfulin U.S. economy. more than 12 years. Even more so, it is a powerful drag That meant that the stock marketon what had been the fast-growing had retreated below where it was economies of Asia. when Japan’s rapid rise began inThose economies had been a mag 1986, a time when pundits aroundnet the for outside investment and pro globe — and particularly in Americavided much of the hope for growth of — were declaring the economic racemajor multinational companies, such over and Japan the winner. as the U.S. automakers in metro Detroit, cereal giant Kellogg Co., in At its December 1989 peak, the Journal photo by GEORGE WALDMAN Nikkei average had scaled the heightsBattle Creek and appliance power of 38,916. But such speculativehouse Whirlpool Corp., in BentonA lVT?in H T lf l Dr- Charles Wright, founder of the newly renamed wealth is now a distant memory. Harbor. , . j Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, By 1991, real estate had begun toAnd things are not likely to change dream celebrates his 80th birthday at the museum. See Page 3. tumble as well. Prices of property insoon. Moody’s Investors Service, the urban areas such as Tbkyo and OsakaU.S. credit-rating agency, recently have fallen to less than half of whatsaid in a report on Japanese corpora INSIDE they were when Japan’s bubble econtions that they “are just now starting omy burst. Property owners, rangingto recognize that they now face some from the biggest banks to individualthing they have never faced before:SPORTS Classifieds Page 23 homeowners, have been left with realwidespread deflationary pressure. Eric Pate says the Lions’ season is in tat Crossword Page 24 estate worth less than the mortgageTheir revenues have come under presters. The only quarterback who can lead owed on it. sure as a result of the Asian crisis; them to the playoffs is third-string. The Editorials Page 6 lb understand that pair of crushingdrops in the real estate and stock coach is bearing a strong resemblance to blows is to have the basis for undermarkets have generated capital loss Wayne Fontes and if they manage to lose Entertainment Page 7 standing a lot of the economic woeses, of and consumer confidence has to Tampa Bay on Monday night, they canMovie Guide Page 21 Japan. Some Americans, remember start thinking full time about next year. ing the predictions just a few yearsSee JAPAN, Page 5 See Page 28. 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