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Sep 30, 1997

An Interesting Question

Will Japan's big bang be met by more than respectful silence or the sound of drawing in breath between clenched teeth?

'So how do you think our Big Bang will affect investor relations in Japan?' Yamada-san asked with a penetrating look. We'd clear ly moved on from the small talk - what we were doing now; how our families were - which had occupied us since we found ourselves sitting opposite each other on the bullet-train from Tokyo to Osaka. I had known Yamada-san since the mid-1980s. He worked for one of the big securities houses where he was instrumental in setting up an investor relations department. There

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