In a sense, Japanese retail executives say, there is no place else for the money to go.

One Japanese executive said real change could only come when his generation retired.

Two Japanese executives at the convention expressed interest in the product.

Because Japanese executives and the government they control never understood their need for competition.

These days especially, the tenure of a Japanese executive can be strikingly short.

Many Japanese executives and their families have settled here in recent years.

When the plant is in full operation, by late next year, 24 Japanese executives will remain.

Japanese chief executives, on the other hand, say they are concerned about almost everything.

So far, however, Japanese executives say there has been no effect on business relations.

"That's easy for you to say," many other Japanese executives in effect responded.