In tokyo's financial markets a long-held sense of injustice is turning to rising alarm. The injustice is that the shares of Japanese companies were the first to be punished, long before other stockmarkets, when credit troubles in America broke out last summer. The alarm is partly over the effects that an American recession might have on the Japanese economy. But, equally, it is over a dysfunctional political establishment at home that is incapable of facing up to a weakening economy.
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