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...leader of the cult suspected in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackin the Tokyo subways died from knife wounds he received yesterday. Hideo Murai, thehead of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's chemical research division, had appeared on Japanese television almost daily since thegas attacksto deny that the cult had anything to do with them. He was attacked yesterday by Hiroyuki Jo, a member of a right-wing group who told police that he was seeking revenge for the subway attack...
...Soet, KLM; Patrick Foley, DHL Corp.; R. Michael Franz, Murata Business Systems; Ernest Gallo, Gallo Winery; James Harvey, Transamerica; Kim Duk-Choong, Daewoo Group; Philip *Knight, Nike; Gunter Kramer, BMW; George Lawrence, American Gas Assn.; Richard Maher, Christian Brothers Winery; Henri Michel, Aerospatiale; Mechlin Moore, Insurance Information Insti*tute; Hideo Nakao, NEC Electronics; Steven Ross, Warner Communications; Anton Rupert, Rembrandt Group; Robert Sinclair, Saab; Preston Robert Tisch, Loews; Graham Whitehead, Jaguar...
...Japanese, unlike most Westerners, are not squeamish about discussing toilet habits. Professor Hideo Nishioka, chairman of the 100-member Japan Toilet Association, a private study group, has calculated that Japanese men spend an average of 31.7 seconds in the john compared with 1 minute 33 seconds for women. As if that were not evidence enough of the country's efficiency, Professor Nishioka has another statistic that illustrates Japanese competitiveness: every day, Japan uses enough toilet paper to circle the earth tenfold...
Many analysts expect the Nikkei index to break the 30,000-yen barrier sometime this year. Says Hideo Nakazawa, general manager of Nomura's equity department: "We may hit some bumps, but the direction is up." Yet even Tokyo is unlikely to disprove the adage so often cited by bears in markets the world over: "No tree grows...
...history? "Western music is so organized," Ozawa observed last month in Paris, where he was conducting at the Opera. "It is so strong and so logical that it is very easy for every nationality to learn." At the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Ozawa studied conducting with Hideo Saito, who had been a pupil of Cellist Emanuel Feuermann in Germany. Saito was aware his students lacked cultural grounding. "He said that if you know the music and have no tradition, then you must go to Europe," remembers Ozawa. "If you have talent, you should have a very good...