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Twenty kilometers outside the city of Nagoya in central Japan, on ground that was the Aichi Youth Park, a glittering futurescape has risen at the site of the 2005 World Exposition. Visitors at the expo's Mitsui-Toshiba pavilion are taken on a multimedia journey through outer space that speculates on the feasibility of travel to distant reaches of the universe. At the Japan pavilion, saltwater red snapper and freshwater carp live side by side in the same pool-a marvel accomplished by infusing the tank with "oxygenated nanobubbles." Throughout the 173-hectare grounds, more than 25 robots...
...year career as a party apparatchik and former Education Minister and Trade Minister provides no evidence of any ideological convictions. Even members of his party struggled to find words to laud their new leader. "We don't have any qualified candidates, so he'll have to do," said Kazuo Aichi, an L.D.P. member of parliament...
Aska International, the Tokyo art gallery that spent $25 million at the Dorrance sale, is controlled by Aichi Corp., a Tokyo firm that last September became one of the five largest shareholders of Christie's stock, with 6.4%. Aichi, in turn, is controlled by Yasumichi Morishita, a secretive businessman who got a one-year suspended sentence in Tokyo in 1986 for securities fraud. Morishita is reputedly worth a trillion yen ($7 billion), and may be planning a takeover of Christie's -- although it is unlikely that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission would approve...
Last week Finance Minister Kiichi Aichi predicted that Japan's trading account with the U.S. would actually slip into the red in May and stay there for several months. That may be an overstatement, but Japanese businessmen and politicians now predict that the trade surplus with the U.S. this year will drop to less than $2.5 billion, from $4.2 billion in 1972. Deliberate government policies to restrain exports and dismantle Japan's once awesome array of protectionist restrictions on foreign goods are obviously having an effect. So, too, is the sharp rise in the value...
...Peking has its way, "the era of collective aggression is upon us." The Nationalists' future hangs on the fate of the U.S. proposal for dual representation of both Peking and Taipei in the U.N. The case for the U.S. plan, as Japan's cool, scholarly Kiichi Aichi put it in the General Assembly, was that dual representation would be "a transitional step," opening the way for a peaceful settlement of the dispute between the two Chinas...