Word: hirata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Housing problems in Tokyo are probably as bad as they are anywhere. When Bureau Secretary Harriet Wong was transferred from Hong Kong, she looked for a house for months, was unable to find one until Advertising Salesman Harold Hirata built an extra house on his land and rented it to her. Correspondent Dwight Martin rented his extra bedroom to Colin MacCulloch, Pacific circulation manager. Martin jokingly told the cook that MacCulloch was to have only two eggs for breakfast. Going beyond the call of duty, the cook initiated a series of regular reports on what and how much MacCulloch...
...Hirata was in Hawaii in 1941 when he received a cable from Nippon Electric saying that his services were urgently needed in Tokyo...
...Hirata spent the war years...
...early years of Japan's re-introduction to democracy, Hirata and Garey found a few old customs difficult to deal with. Although many Japanese businessmen were eager to resume their prewar world trade, most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
...stage in their efforts to reach top officials in Japanese firms, Garey and Hirata found themselves being occasionally shunted off to a somu-bucho (general affairs manager), who usually makes no major decisions but is entrusted with the responsibility of keeping anyone from approaching the president. Hirata recalls the time when the somu-bucho of one company ushered him politely into his office, then, while Hirata talked to him, quietly fell asleep...