Japan stocks fall as layoffs hammer bank shares

staff layoffs, bankruptcies etc...will continue for now and may be until 2009....so? nothing, people will get used to it like they did with death tolls in Iraq by suicide bombers or U.S. airstrikes. Moreover, human casualties in this financial war will be far fewer than in two wars.

No worry...Japan is "cash rich" and we hear that mantra every day.