The decline in the Tokyo stock market continues despite the fanfare of entering the new century.
An analysis of stock price falls triggered by the bursting in 1990 of the asset-inflated economic bubble shows the Nikkei average touched rock bottom in October 1990, nine months after hitting a peak.
The barometer index then jumped 35 percent from this low six months later.
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