Word: akio
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...early 1990s, both Japan and its competitors believed it had invented an economic version of the perpetual-motion machine. And that being the case, there was no reason for the miracle to end. M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow declared that the 21st century belonged to Japan. Sony co-founder Akio Morita and nationalist Shintaro Ishihara wrote a best seller arguing that Japan had an unbeatable lead in technology, thanks to its superior economic and social system...
EVEN BY HOLLYWOOD'S STANDARDS, Michael Schulhof was a notoriously big spender. As the chairman of the U.S. operations of Sony Corp. and protege of company founder Akio Morita, Schulhof set out to build an entertainment empire that would create movies, records and other "software" for Sony's hardware: TV sets, vcrs and gadgets of the future. He started slowly at first by acquiring CBS Records for $2 billion in 1987. The real spree began in 1989 when Schulhof paid $3.4 billion for perennial also-ran Columbia and its sister TriStar studios. He immediately spent some $800 million more...
There is nothing, however, to stop a surgeon from shopping around for the most accommodating review board. A case in point is that of Dr. Akio Wakabayashi and the laser surgery he developed. He was at the University of California at Irvine in 1989 when he experimented with a new treatment for clearing the airways of emphysema victims. Seven of his first 56 patients developed fatal complications. Some of his colleagues suspect that the Irvine review board found the numbers worrisome; Wakabayashi claims the university "couldn't buy the equipment I needed." Whatever the reason, he transferred to Chapman General...
...sarin over Tokyo from 1.65-m-long remote-controlled helicopters. Asahara would follow up the attack by overpowering the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and taking control of Japan with his own tanks and fighter jets. "It sounds incredible," says a former cult member who goes by the name of Akio Kawaguchi for fear of being found out by the cult, "but Aum is capable of anything...
...streets filled with men wearing hard hats and the distinctive uniforms of Japan's leading construction firms. Mammoth earthmovers and jackhammers chipped away at the wreckage of collapsed buildings, while welders fused support bars to cracked and buckled overpasses. Workers were clearing rubble and forging new routes around it. Akio Himeji, an executive of the Yoshida Gumi, a marine- construction company, supervised a pumping operation at the docks to provide emergency water supplies. ``I think,'' he says, ``the next few years will be like the postwar recovery. Our company grew a lot in those years...