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...billion ($5.5 billion last year alone) in office towers and other buildings. Oil-company headquarters are a favorite: Hiro Real Estate last month paid $250 million for Mobil Oil's 42-story Manhattan headquarters tower. An older landmark, Fifth Avenue's Tiffany building, was sold last November to Dai-ichi America Real Estate for $94 million. Where landmarks are not available, seascapes will do: in Hawaii, Japanese investors own more than half of the twelve major hotels along Waikiki Beach...
...Toshiyuki Nakamura, who was president of Japan's third largest paintmaker, Dai Nippon Toryo, was meeting in March with other executives in his office when he suddenly put his hand to his chest and fell from his chair, dead of a heart attack at 62. Nakamura had been trying to engineer a recovery for the company, which had plunged heavily into debt...
...against the dollar, they have become more ambitious, aggressive and resourceful. The Japanese have bought up banks in the U.S. and Australia, financed iron-ore mining in Brazil and provided funding for the underwater Chunnel, which will link England and France. Taking their cue from Japanese manufacturers, banks like Dai-Ichi Kangyo have penetrated foreign markets partly by charging less for loans than their competitors...
...hands, the Japanese put into their banking law a word-for-word translation of the American Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibits banks from underwriting corporate securities. In addition, the Japanese have restrictive rules on the interest rates that banks can pay depositors. Says Nobuya Hagura, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo: "The regulations are outdated, and they inhibit business performance...
Nobody should know better than Hagura. As the expansion-minded head of Dai- Ichi Kangyo, he oversees a vast network of offices from Chicago to Caracas and Madrid to Melbourne. Dai-Ichi Kangyo tries to portray itself as a friendly institution. Its slogan: "The Bank with a Heart." Like most major Japanese banking concerns, it belongs to a keiretsu, an industrial group made up of dozens of interconnected companies. The bank owns stock in the companies and extends them much of the credit they need. The Dai-Ichi Kangyo keiretsu includes such well-known firms as Hitachi, Isuzu and Kawasaki...