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...Koetsu was the first Japanese to sign one of his own tea bowls - the famous "Fuji" bowl, now designated a national treasure by the Japanese and hence unable to be shown in the U.S. - but he never ran his own kiln. Like Rikyu before him, Koetsu worked with a family of potters whose name came to stand for a whole class of rough, low-fired pottery: raku ware. Unlike Rikyu, though, Koetsu got his hands dirty, shaping the clay, carving it with knife and spatula...
Japan is also awash in mergers, but with a difference. Instead of trying to compete with U.S. and European banks, the country's financial institutions are combining to avoid bankruptcy following a decade of recession and bad loans. Simple survival was the driving force behind the recent merger of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan, three laggard giants whose combined assets of $1.2 trillion make it the largest financial-services company in the world...
SHOWSTOPPER Fuji wowed crowds at the photo industry's annual conference in Las Vegas last week with the first 6.1- megapixel digital camera--nearly twice the resolution of new models from Nikon, Olympus and Sony. The FinePix S1 Pro uses Super CCD technology, which replaces standard square-shaped diodes with more compact octagonal ones for sharper, brighter pics. It's got lots of gewgaws, including multiple-exposure settings, three levels of image compression and a 2-in. liquid-crystal display. Since it won't be out until April, you have a few months to save the $4,000 it will...