All of the Following Are Correct About the Recent Japanese

All of the following are correct about the recent Japanese economic developments except

A) because of a rise in the value of the yen, exports declined in the 1990s.
B) lacking a domestic market as large as that of the United States, in the 1990s the economy slipped into recession.
C) the tradition of lifetime employment has continued.
D) job security is on the decline.
E) slowly the Japanese market is beginning to open up to international competition.