Word: fuji
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What do you think of Japan?" is also how ritual exchanges between less celebrated Westerners and Japanese taxi drivers begin. The required answer is as bound by ritual as the question. Certain stock phrases are to be avoided. Admiration of samurai, kimono, Mount Fuji or geisha is, on the whole, not well received. For, like those wrong-headed textbooks, this might suggest that modern, international, metropolitan Japan is not sufficiently appreciated...
...That means Kodak's high-margin film franchise, which brings in about a third of the company's profits, will bear the brunt of the switch. So even though Kodak has lost some market share over the past few years in a brutal price war launched by Japanese rival Fuji, it still captures a commanding 65% of a sunset business. "I don't see how Kodak can be as profitable, or have the same level of dominance, as before," says Douglas Rea, professor of digital photography and imaging at Rochester Institute of Technology. Many skittish investors agree. In the past...
Toshi Kubota always had a little bit of soul. Growing up in Japan's rural Shizuoka prefecture, where his parents still run a store near Mount Fuji, he watched Soul Train and, despite poor radio reception, strained to hear stations that played rhythm and blues...
...only a small part of Taiwan. The rest of the island is covered with remote, forested mountains, which are laced with hundreds of hiking trails. Taiwan is home to the highest mountain in east Asia?at 3,952 m, Yushan (Jade Mountain) is taller than Japan's Mount Fuji?while dozens of peaks soar above 3,000 m. Protected by the government, the mountains are home to black bears, salmon, rare birds and other wildlife and are the island's most compelling attraction...
...strategy. Saddled with $17 billion in debt, Xerox is a bloated company that needs to trim the fat--and fast--to compete with the Japanese and rivals in Silicon Valley. Besides getting rid of the credit division and Xerox PARC, options include bailing on its Japanese joint venture with Fuji...