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...Dai-Ichi Kangyo. The name does not have the same familiar ring as Toyota, Honda, Sony or Nikon. But Tokyo-based Dai-Ichi Kangyo is a global business enterprise that has, in a sense, become more powerful than all those other Japanese companies combined. According to figures released last week by the American Banker newspaper, Dai-Ichi Kangyo, whose assets reached $207 billion in the first quarter, has just surpassed New York's Citicorp ($176 billion) as the largest banking company in the world...
...Dai-Ichi Kangyo is just one of a group of Japanese banks that have become the new behemoths of finance. In fact, the American Banker ranking showed that four of the top five banking companies are now Japanese firms. The others: Fuji Bank ($143 billion at the end of last year), Sumitomo Bank ($136 billion) and Mitsubishi Bank ($133 billion). All told, Japan had five of the top ten banking concerns and 13 of the largest 25. In 1980 none of the Japanese banks were in the top five, and only Dai-Ichi Kangyo ranked among the first...
...based his pro-French Vietnamese government on his country's small upper class, exiled his ablest political associates and ignored French pleas to fight insurgent forces of the Communist Viet Minh. In June 1952 Huu was fired by Viet Nam's chief of state, the Emperor Bao Dai...
...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American- TIME, Feb. 25]? THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...
Such economic considerations have changed what was once a chivalrous game into a nasty business. In the old days, poachers and water bailiffs both took a more romantic view of things. Says Dai Thomas, 60, a retired mechanic and sometime poacher from St. Clears, Wales, who was taught the art at the age of eight by his father: "I love poaching. It's a sport. I know where the fish hides, in the deep pools at the banks underneath the roots. I tickle the salmon. He thinks I'm playing with him, which makes me sad because once...