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...Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Symphony and a professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. "The young people were crazy about rock when the Beatles were popular. Now they go to the classics." But not always just to hear the music. Says Syuji Fujii, chief director of the music division at NHK: "Music is used to make friends, to get a wife. These are just temporary music lovers...
Once the young people enter the business world, explains Fujii, many of them abandon classical music for enka, which combines both Western and traditional music elements in a kind of Japanese equivalent of American country and western. Traditional Japanese music, marked by delicate use of microtones, refined textures and free rhythm, was downgraded during the drive toward Westernization. But it remains popular, especially with older people and in the provinces, and is preserved in the Noh, Bunraku and Kabuki theaters. "We never had a national traditional music," says Toyama. "It was strictly apportioned by classes: the courts, the samurai...
...chief, Matsutaro Fujii, faces a daunting challenge in trying to restore the line's prosperity and revive the harmony that was once the hallmark of the "national railway family," or kokutetsu ikka. With trucking taking away most of its freight business and airlines slowly chewing into its passenger traffic, the railroad has been losing money since 1964. Last year its accumulated deficit stood at $2.5 billion; interest on its debt alone totals $2 million a day. Thus the line, which daily carries up to 18 million people, has been severely pinched for funds to improve its services and battle...
Angling & Go. After working out such problems and receiving expected governmental approval, the three Mitsubishi firms plan to merge in May. The man most likely to head the new company is Shinzo Fujii, 70, the president of Shin Mitsubishi, the biggest and financially strongest of the three firms. An even-tempered but forceful businessman, Fujii took over the reins of his company once more after a hand-picked successor died, would probably stay on just long enough to get the new company going strong. Unlike the old zaibatsu, whose power extended deeply into politics and military policy, today...
...MOUNT FUJII...