Strictly businesslike.
That's the way Japanese view foreign-affiliated firms when it comes to corporate restructuring.
Announcements like that of Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co. in January to drastically cut its retail brokerage sector, together with about 1,200 employees, reinforce that image of cool efficiency.
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