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...settle price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...
Wilson and Whitacre were soon discussing the price of lysine in talks with representatives of ADM's two biggest rivals in the field, the Japanese companies Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko. The Japanese were in a jam because prices had plunged from about $1.30 per lb. before ADM entered the market to about 60 cents per lb. When the group gathered at a Nikko Hotel conference room in Mexico City, Wilson stated that the price drop had created an unacceptable situation: buyers of lysine were getting a $200 million break at the expense of ADM and the Japanese producers. "The competitor...
Because Shinto taught that the Emperor was the descendant of the gods who had created Japan, the religion was made a patriotic duty for all Japanese by the country's prewar nationalistic leaders. Shrines received state support, and priests became government officials. The ancient Shinto slogan, Hakko ichiu, meaning "the world under one roof." became the doctrinal justification for Japan's aggressive expansion...
...generals; now, as "Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
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