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...subsidiary of the Japanese cassette and electronics manufacturer made the gift as "part of our policy to contribute to education and art," Vice President of Administration Ken Aoshima said yesterday...
...stipulated by the agreement, TDK will review its gift within six months to decide if it will donate additional funds. Owen and Aoshima said TDK U.S.A. was positive about continuing support...
...agreement comes at a time of high tension between the two nations over U.S. trade deficits and highprofile Japanese buying of American holdings. The grant "doesn't have anything to do with business," Aoshima said, emphasizing the immediate need for a better understanding of Japan by Americans...
Dubbed the "talent candidates" for their nonpolitical achievements, they campaigned on simplistic clean-up platforms and brought mass-media familiarity to the voters. Two, in fact, were popular television funnymen: Yukio Aoshima, 35, who plays a meddling grandmother on a weekly situation comedy, and Nokku Yokoyama, 36, member of a slapstick comedy team. From the Sato camp came other celebrities. Toko Kon, 70, is a Henry Milleresque Buddhist monk who gained fame as a writer of pornographic short stories, now likes to sling outrageous insults at prominent figures on a television talk show. Hirofumi Daimatsu, 47, coached Japan...