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...moves were a hard sell at a proud manufacturing company like Sanyo, which started by making bicycle lamps in 1947 and is best known for refrigerators and batteries. "Talking about the environment doesn't send a good message to the old-timers who made Sanyo what it is," says Hideyo Waki, a business professor at Tokyo Denki University. It was even harder to persuade investors like Goldman Sachs and Daiwa Securities, which had sunk billions of dollars into a Sanyo turnaround, to be patient. Saddled with $3.4 billion in long-term debt, Sanyo only had the resources to restructure...
...could be recharged with a solar panel and a washing machine that recycled water. These moves were a hard sell at a proud manufacturing company like Sanyo, which started by making bicycle lamps in 1947. "What Sanyo does best is make batteries and industrial air systems and refrigerators," says Hideyo Waki, a business professor at Tokyo Denki University. "Talking about the environment doesn't send a good message to the old-timers who made Sanyo what...
...combined 72-hole score of 548, or 28 under par; at the Yomiuri Country Club, in Tokyo. The individual competition was won by George Knudson, who sank a 12-ft. putt on the second hole of a sudden-death play-off to break a tie with Japan's Hideyo Sugimoto. Nicklaus finished third, Palmer fifth...
...director with a long Santa Claus beard, who showed him a cage containing not only animals but two pretty girls. This, said the director, was meant "to illustrate the oneness of all living things." Eckstein went to Japan to write a biography of Japanese Scientist Hideyo Noguchi. He also noted that Japan smells of excrement, as Norway smells of rotten fish and southern France of urine...
...Microbe Hunter Hideyo Noguchi...