The market capitalization increased, and they took advantage of that to do stock swaps to take over companies. They used the stock prices as if they were currency.

If the system goes down then it can be said the preparations were not adequate. In the case of the New York Stock Exchange there's a lot more buffer in their capacity. Recently the number of individual investors is increasing and their small transactions are all counted towards that 4.5 million. Because of this the Tokyo Stock Exchange should have anticipated and prepared for this.

On the Tokyo Stock Exchange side there was clearly a lack of preparation.

This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan. It deals with those aspects which have produced and maintained haiku into the present day. The important key to understanding comes with the realization that in Japanese art one strives always for the absolute. Of the absolute there is no question of degree; it is either attained or lost. Most often, to be sure, it is not attained, but it is the constant striving toward and awareness of that high goal which gives strength and vitality to this living aesthetic spirit which has so impressed me in Japan.

(Robert B. Hall, Foreword, p. x)

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