Word: fuji
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MATURE INDUSTRY, A REALLY NEW product can mean big money. (Think compact discs.) Or just big losses. (Think New Coke.) Last week five famous names in photography took the plunge. Film giants Kodak and Fuji, along with cameramakers Canon, Nikon and Minolta, jointly introduced the Advanced Photo System (APS), the first new approach to film-based picture taking since the early 1980s...
...offer up their unhappy childhoods like movie plots, or like gifts." All this is set against the backdrop of the Crown Prince's dating Brooke Shields, protesting farmers dumping foreign rice, and "laid-off Toyota workers burn[ing] AMERICA=AIDS into the brush on the southern slope of Mount Fuji." While cultures fight, their products flirt...
...auto deal falls far short of being the "major step toward free trade throughout the world" that Clinton hailed. This week, even before the pact had been printed, word got out that Kantor's office will begin investigating a potentially explosive complaint by Eastman Kodak. The company charges that Fuji Photo Film and the Tokyo government illegally conspired to prevent Kodak from enlarging its 9% share of the market for camera film in Japan. The complaint -- involving some of the same Japanese business practices that the U.S. tried but failed to change in the auto deal -- is one of several...
...idea that tourism inevitably strips off some holiness of place, some magic, may be descended from the primitive conceit that a camera steals the soul of the person photographed. The sacred place (Mount Sinai, Mount Fuji, the Grand Canyon) is an onion, and each new wave of Visigoths with video cameras peels away a layer of mystique, until the magic that drew the stranger in the first place is gone, and instead the tourist finds--other tourists. And with them, the hotels and fast foods and souvenirs and globally identical amenities. A real traveler hates all that...
...indictments continue to mount forAum leader Shoko Asahara.Police have now charged him with having a disciple strangled to death after the man attempted to escape the cult's Mt. Fuji compound. Police last week arrested Asahara's wife, who they suspect was also involved in the murder...