U.S. business leaders rap Japan's reform efforts

U.S. business leaders rap Japan's reform efforts

WASHINGTON, United States - Robert Scott (on the rostrum), president of U.S. financial services firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., tells participants at the Japan-U.S. Business Conference in Washington on Feb. 17 that the progress of reforms undertaken by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has been very slow.

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