Word: hirata
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Hirata first came to the U.S. mainland in 1929 to attend the University of Michigan, where he was flyweight and bantamweight boxing champion and 118-lb. wrestling champion. After his graduation in 1933, he went to Princeton University for his master's degree in politics, then studied law for a year at the University of Chicago. In 1935 he joined an international law office in Tokyo and a year later transferred to the Nippon Electric Co., where he worked in the law and documents department...
...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...