Financial security, not fine art, helps drive Japan stocks to record high

Before Japan's asset bubble catastrophically burst in the early 1990s, stockbroker Ryuta Otsuka remembers waving a 10,000-yen note to hail a taxi after evenings sipping champagne at high-end Tokyo nightclubs. You couldn't catch one without waving a 10,000-yen note,"The bill was worth around $70 back then and now -- although in...