Word: fuji
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Ikeda's government decided the reins could safely be loosened a little, lowered the official bank interest rate by 0.3% to 6.57%-back to where it was before the clampdown. Japanese businessmen were delighted, but they still managed to pull a poor mouth. Says Fuji Steel President Shigeo Nagano: "I would like to see the government now embark on a general relaxation of financial curbs, otherwise it is going to be a long, slow climb back to prosperity''-Japanese style, that...
...economic growth," says Dutch Economist Jan Pen, ''you need a shift from one sector to another-as in the past from textiles and railroads to electronics and chemicals. What America needs is a new growth sector." Sums up Yoshizane Iwasa, vice president of Tokyo's powerful Fuji Bank: "The U.S. must have far greater confidence in herself. She is still a young and mighty nation, full of energy and potentials. Her businessmen should be American not only in name but in fact...
...Youth Physical Fitness conference in Washington, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, 42, recent conqueror (along with some 500,000 others last year) of Japan's Mount Fuji, professed himself shocked at America's scandalous flab surplus. "I was out in a farm state* a few days ago, and I found that the women generally had a firmer grip than the men in a handshake," said Udall, who need not worry about the crunch in his own clasp. "I think that is a commentary on conditions today." Something had to give before Marilyn Monroe, 35, could snuggle into...
...business district on a plot of undeveloped land, it was planned to sit within a wall of buildings that shuts out the unpleasant surroundings. Space Needle visitors get an enchanting view of the city's lights at night, and by day a panorama ranging from America's Fuji-Mount Rainier-to the snow-capped Olympics rising beyond white-capped Puget Sound. Forty-eight governments have exhibits in the fair, ranging from France's $1,000,000 exhibit (a bargain by world's-fair standards) to tiny San Marino's stamp and pottery show...
...Easterns. Much of the Madison Avenue manner rubbed off on the Japanese admen. To Yoshida, the "client is god." and his account executives spare no effort to prove it. Each summer, when Japanese traditionally send each other greetings, teams of Dentsu men climb to the top of sacred Mount Fuji to post their seasonal cards to major clients. Ads aimed at Westerners living in Japan are written in "Japlish"-a stilted Japanese version of English. A recent Dentsu house ad boasted that the agency's ads reach an audience of 90 million "herdsmen, hoteliers, housewives, hostesses, heavyweights, hepcats, hipsters...