LIKE A BROKEN RECORD,investment strategists and Asian experts have been declaring a new bull market in Japanese stocks over and over again for the better part of a decade.Now a rebound-finally-seems to be taking hold at Japan Inc.,thanks to major corporate reforms.While the stock market has enjoyed upward momentum in recent months-as well as a nice bounce on the heels of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent reelection-the Nikkei 225 index,at 13,393,is still a fraction of the nearly 40,000 it reached at the end of 1989.
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