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...Japanese invest abroad, more and more U.S. businessmen will find themselves doing deals with them. The corporate style that works for Americans at home may not go over with their new colleagues or competitors. Neff and many other Boston-area executives are turning to Ikuko Atsumi, 43, a Japanese poet and feminist who has lived in the U.S. since 1981. She is president of the New England Japanese Center, which teaches often bewildered Americans how to do business with her countrymen. Says Atsumi: "To succeed in Japan, the fastest shortcut is to learn Japanese culture...
...Atsumi, the former publisher of the Japanese magazine The Feminist: Asian Women, went to the U.S. after she was awarded a fellowship to Radcliffe. When she later sought work at the electronics companies around Boston, she was startled to find how little many American executives seemed to know about Japan. Says she: "They know they have a lot to learn, but because they're so busy, they want some kind of instant pill to learn...
...response was the New England Japanese Center, which she runs out of her home in Stow, Mass. Along with the seminars, the center offers services ranging from translation and language instruction to private lessons in Japanese manners, which Atsumi gives in a den outfitted as a traditional Japanese sitting room. Clients who prefer to let someone else do the deal making can also turn to Atsumi for help. For a fee ranging from $100 an hour to a 10% commission, she will negotiate contracts with Japanese companies herself...
Perhaps Actor Kiyoshi Atsumi deserves a rest, along with his fans. The celebrated star of the polysequel Tora-San movies has just finished his 31st, an assembly linelike creativity that puts Sylvester Stallone and George Lucas to shame. In each Tora-San film, Atsumi, 55, noodles around in the same wildly checked, double-breasted leisure suit and porkpie hat, playing a middle-age Walter Mitty pitted against the vicissitudes of modern Japan. And with each film, some 4 million Tora-trekkies line up at the box office. His latest fan is a big one: IBM has cast...
...each of the films, Tora-San (Kiyoshi Atsumi) falls in love with a handsome woman. At the end it doesn't work out for one reason or another. He always looks as if his heart will break, and audiences all over Japan cry on cue. Since the first movie was introduced in 1969, an estimated 40 million people have been drawn to that familiar story, and 4 million more are expected to see the latest, which opened in theaters just before New Year's. Atsumi, 54, has become the best-known actor in the country, and no movie...