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...Fuji, Judo, Mazda and Ryusho are dead but not forgotten. The four Wagyu bulls, smuggled from their native Japan to the U.S. in 1972, left a valuable legacy for Texas cattleman Don Lively. His stockpile of semen from the bulls and their descendants, which are believed to be the only strain ever to leave Japan, is worth $2 million. The cattle produce tender Kobe beef, a delicacy that sells in Japan for as much as $180 per lb. Lively and his partner have sold $1 million worth of the semen at $250 a vial, in contrast...
...bottom line is that America is an ebbing power in the banking world, with its mightiest institutions surpassed by behemoths in Japan and Europe. U.S. banks have simply been outmuscled abroad by their bigger, better- capitalized foreign competitors, like Sumitomo and Fuji of Japan, the Deutsche and Dresdner banks of Germany and such other rivals as Credit Lyonnais of France, Midland of Britain and Union Bank of Switzerland. A glance at a list of the world's largest banks gives a clear view of the winners and losers in the bruising battle. Of the world's 20 top banks...
Japanese banks are currently intensifying their focus on the European Community. Some 60 Japanese banks have European bases in London, and more will probably follow. Mini-headquarters are also being established on the Continent. Dai-Ichi Kangyo and Fuji Bank have offices in Munich; Sumitomo Bank, Sanwa Bank and the Bank of Tokyo are in Lisbon; and others have set up shop in Paris, Barcelona and Milan. The Japanese are likely to concentrate their activities in merchant banking and the bond markets...
Investigators believe the suspect coins began entering the country as early as March 1988, but the counterfeits were discovered only last month, when a Tokyo firm tried to deposit 1,000 coins with the Fuji Bank. Because the amount was large and the coins' protective plastic covers appeared slightly more purple than the standard issue, Fuji officials asked the Bank of Japan to check them out. By examining the coins under a microscope, the officials discovered tiny flaws that confirmed the coins were not genuine...
...survey will probably blast many viewers' assumptions about what Japanese art should look like. Forget about tributes to Mount Fuji or poetic evocations < of the changing seasons. These members of what one Japanese critic has called "the post-Hiroshima generation" have grown up in a technology-driven, fiercely consumerist, information-saturat ed urban setting far removed, spiritually if not physically, from Mother Nature. They are city dwellers accustomed at cherry-blossom time each year to seeing decorative artificial flowers attached to electric poles -- right next to real trees. Those based in Tokyo, for example, would be hard-pressed to find...