Word: hiroki
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...they've succeeded, with an aggressive Day-Glo style that has commanded the spotlight at the world's premier sporting event, instantly lifting a dispirited nation. "Winning these games, the team gives us Japanese the power to be brave," says 18-year-old college student Hiroki Sakaue as he waits outside Osaka's Nagai Stadium for a glimpse of his new heroes. Says his friend Hiromi Kaya: "They give us hope...
...Japanese have largely shied away from takeovers of major U.S. industrial corporations, at least partly in fear of a public relations backlash. "We are worried about investment friction now. It may get serious," says Hiroki Sakamoto, a senior official of the Japan External Trade Organization. But last month Dainippon Ink & Chemicals won a long and bitter battle to take over New York's Reichhold Chemicals, a maker of specialty polymers. The price: $540 million...
...small, bare University of Hawaii's auditorium. His audience had gathered at the Army's request. Though most Hawaiian Japanese speak English, many of these did not. So they sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next-of-kin of a Japanese-American boy killed in Italy...