Word: hiroshi
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...through hard work and foresight, while fighting off rival gamemakers such as Sega. When MCA Universal charged that the game Donkey Kong infringed on the copyright to the movie King Kong, Nintendo stubbornly refused to settle, and eventually MCA had to pay Nintendo a $1.8 million penalty. Nintendo chief Hiroshi Yamauchi also wisely built expansion capabilities in his entertainment systems, allowing an innocuous video-game system to perhaps become the home-communications network of the future. Writes Sheff: "Nintendo's success was proof of the superiority of a system that allows long-term commitment...
TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL AGAIN IN 1998. THAT IN effect was the Rx prescribed for detractors by pharmacologist Hiroshi Nakajima as he vowed to strive for "harmony" during a second five-year term as director-general of the World Health Organization. His task appears daunting. In an atmosphere of distinct bureaucratic disharmony, Nakajima, 64, emerged victorious from an 18-13 vote of the executive board of WHO, an arm of the U.N., thanks largely to Third World support -- and despite a determined campaign waged against him by the U.S. and the European Community...
Japan's recycling rate is almost double that of the U.S. -- 40% of municipal solid waste, vs. 17%. But the Japanese program shares some of the problems familiar to American recyclers. Milk cartons, one of the favorite recycling items, are piling up high in warehouses. Like America, says Hiroshi Takatsuki, a professor at Kyoto University, "Japan emphasized collection before coming up with an appropriate infrastructure for reuse...
...climbing, and revenues are on the decline. A growing number of clubs are crying broke. Several others, including the Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros, are being shopped around by cash-drained owners. Last week's sale of the money-losing Seattle Mariners to a group headed by Japan's Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of the video-gamemaker Nintendo, was the latest confirmation of the trend...
After five months of debate, major league baseball owners gave a thumbs-up to the $125 million sale of the Seattle Mariners to an investment group headed by Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo in Japan. The owners waved the deal through because Yamauchi agreed to limited decision-making power. Said American League president Bobby Brown: "The offshore interest has investment but not much to say about how the franchise is operated." (See related story on page...