** FILE ** In this Nov. 25, 1997 file photo, customers line up outside a Tokyo branch office of Yamaichi Securities Co. to withdraw their funds, one day after Yamaichi, one of Japan's four largest brokerages, announced its business closure because of financial woes from a payoff scandal and a slump in the Tokyo stock prices. What sounds like a run-down of the unfolding U.S. financial turmoil today, September 2008, is in many ways similar to what happened in Japan in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara, File)