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Unit Six Japanese Style in Decision-making Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (野村證券株式会社,) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI野村控股公司), which forms part of the Nomura Group. It plays a central role in the securities business, the Group’s core business. Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. It operates through five business divisions: retail (in Japan), global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management. The company boasts the largest shares in all business divisions within the Japanese market and uncompelled as the top leading securities firm in Japan. Established December 25, 1925 in Osaka (大阪, it is the oldest brokerage firm in Japan. It is named after its founder Tokushichi Nomura II, a wealthy Japanese stockbroking tycoon (大亨巨头In the USA Nomura Securities is known as Nomura Securities International. decision-making / direction-taking / problem-solving mean + doing / to do … forces factors measure judge the importance, value or effect of sth impact of A on B have/exert an impact on sth/sb contemporary life/music come to grips with sth begin to understand and deal with sth difficult comparison (compare, comparable, comparative) compare A with / to B by comparison in comparison with (sth/sb) translate express (ideas, feelings) in a different form e.g. Her silence was translated as assent. fundamental basic concept idea / notion resist (resistance) refuse to accept ‘It also means using dangerous … resist translation and comparisons.’ — It also means using dangerous comparisons, the need to explain certain basic concepts which can hardly be translated or compared. vocational (vocation) (vacation) professional (profession) markedly noticeably / strikingly emphasis (emphasize) lay/put/place emphasis/stress on … stoc