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Commands a view of soaring Fuji...
...approaches Darling's house today, he is confronted by a bewildering jumble of wild colors. He walks along a cement path adorned with Oriental mountains, and climbs a porch whose walls are filled with the birds, bears and skunks of Yellowstone National Park. He passes through a Mount Fuji screen door and walks upon upside-down rugs that glow with still lifes. He sits in a leatherette armchair covered with a rushing river in an idyllic field of gold, and rests his feet upon a footstool that depicts a deep green forest. On the ceiling, he sees snake-infested...
Color TV manufacturers admit that the traditionally docile housewives are wreaking their vengeance: domestic sales are off 80% from last year. Some makers, like Fuji Electric, have sliced prices by a third to win the women back. A few department stores have tried peddling color sets door-to-door. Meanwhile, 1,500,000 unsold sets lie in warehouses...
Yoshizane Iwasa, president of the Fuji Bank, which is Japan's largest, found himself held to account for an embezzlement by a minor loan officer in a Tokyo branch. Masao Suganuma, 41, was arrested for taking $5,270,000 through phony loans. Once word got out, President Iwasa was summoned before the finance committee of Japan's Diet to explain and apologize. Last week the bank's board, of which Iwasa is a member, cut the pay of Iwasa and other officers and directors by as much as 30% for the next six months. The directors canceled...
...same period last year. It was the first earnings drop in six years. Though all but $2,000,000 of the embezzled funds will eventually be recovered from Suganuma, members of Japan's financial community figure that the incident will continue to have a profound effect on Fuji Bank's leaders...