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...Welfare called for the introduction of mammography for all women over 50. As of 2005, only 7% of women follow that recommendation. The price tag of a single machine is about $262,000, and a mammogram generally costs a patient $90 out of her own pocket. Says Dr. Fujio Kasumi, breast-cancer chief at Juntendo University Hospital: "People don't do [tests], thinking it's a waste of money...
...economic realities of Japan today, he can look disingenuous or simply ineffective. At the LDP convention in January, Abe declared that "economic growth is not for business enterprises, it is for the public," and later called on Keidanren, Japan's leading business federation, to raise wages. But Keidanren head Fujio Mitarai has rebuffed those calls, lobbying the government instead to lower corporate tax and raise the consumption tax, shifting more of the financial burden to ordinary workers. "In his heart Abe feels consideration for households," says Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the nearly 7-million-strong Japanese Trade Union Confederation...
Good things come to those who wait--an adage Canon's Tsuneji Uchida, 64, knows well after 41 years at the Japanese electronics company. This month Canon promoted Uchida to vice president, a move that hints he may succeed outgoing president Fujio Mitarai. Canon enjoyed a record 34% profit increase last year, and Uchida, who guided Canon's drive to become the world's leading digital-camera maker, gets most of the credit. Uchida's next challenge: to capture 20% of the global flat-screen-TV market...
...fact, with a compounded annual revenue growth of 20% over the past five years, Hyundai has been the world's fastest-growing major automaker since 1999, according to Lehman Bros. Hyundai is "putting pressure on everybody," says Rob Hinchliffe, an auto analyst at UBS. Even Toyota vice chairman Fujio Cho last year acknowledged the blur that is getting bigger in his rearview mirror: "Hyundai has quality and prices that have caught customers' attention, not to mention ours...
...fact, with a compounded annual revenue growth of 20% over the past five years, Hyundai has been the world's fastest-growing major automaker since 1999, according to Lehman Bros. Hyundai is "putting pressure on everybody," says Rob Hinchliffe, an auto analyst at UBS. Indeed, even Toyota vice chairman Fujio Cho has acknowledged the blur that is getting bigger in his rearview mirror. "Hyundai has quality and prices that have caught customers' attention, not to mention ours," he said at an auto conference in August...