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...theirs is still a risky business. Because of the high cost of installation, service is expensive--$40 a month for the average household--and no one expects that cable TV on its own will be a big draw, despite clever new features such as a karaoke station. Says Minoru Akimoto, president of Titus Communications, a cable-TV joint venture involving Itochu, Toshiba, Time Warner and U.S. West: ``In Japan, where housewives have the final say on financial matters, they won't like it. They'll say, `You want me to buy a service that gets my husband to watch more...
...success, Akimoto and other cable executives maintain, is to provide customers with local telephone service practically free of charge, a come-on that has worked well for cable companies in Britain. While the MPT is willing to allow cable firms to provide phone service, a big question remains: NTT, until now the monopoly provider of local phone service, is not eager to let the cable companies connect to its network. Its basic phone service already loses about $1.3 billion a year because the government sets the rates. In several recent decisions, the MPT has forced NTT to give its competitors...
...lusty singing and shouted the stiff commands were more positive in their views. Artilleryman Sei-saku Akimoto, leader of the Russian-sponsored Minshu Ka Undo (Democratic Movement) in his camp, said: "The Russians trust us and we trust the Russians. We soon found out from our newspapers there how we had been duped by fascists and capitalists." Snapped former Pfc. Tsugio Kishimoto, prison company commander: "We must all join the Communist Party. It is our only chance to build a new, democratic Japan...
Catch. In Tokyo, Ichiro Akimoto, 60, advertised for a bride to share the tidy income he makes rolling new cigarettes from butts, heard from 2,100 eager applicants...
...passing the million mark. Founder Seiji Noma has been compared to Newnes, Northcliffe, Hearst, Curtis. Since 1930 he has been head of the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper"), oldest and one of the most influential Japanese dailies. This book is his autobiography, written in English by his friend, Shunkichi Akimoto. Unusually frank, it reveals a man who seems to represent his people, combining Western push with Eastern fatalism, occidental morals with oriental philosophy...
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