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...study at M.I.T. called it, isn't the telephone or even the automobile. It's the devastatingly efficient assembly-line method called the Toyota Production System (TPS), which has revolutionized the way factories are run worldwide. Few people have done more to perfect "the Toyota Way" than chairman Hiroshi Okuda, 71, and president Fujio Cho, 67, with a combined 93 years at Toyota between them. Toyota's first two CEOs not to hail from the company's founding Toyoda clan, Okuda and Cho have taught hundreds of companies the TPS secrets of eliminating waste, reducing defects and maximizing flow. "From...
...societies than to consensus-oriented Japan, prevented the legal population from getting out of control by making the national bar exam notoriously difficult. But with courts backlogged and lawsuits mushrooming, the scarcity of lawyers is becoming dire. "There are lots of cities in Japan without a single lawyer," says Hiroshi Asako, a dean at the newly opened Waseda Law School in Tokyo. The Japanese Diet passed a bill in 2002 allowing universities to establish graduate law schools, and the "if you build it, they will come" approach is working. Waseda, one of Japan's largest law schools with 300 first...
...first nine months of this year. Such operations snafus contributed to the company's first half-yearly loss since going public in 1962. Breaking the firm's profitability streak became an embarrassing black eye for Iwata, who had the great misfortune of taking over the company from legendary CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi a year-and-a-half ago?just as the bottom was falling out. Coming off its worst year in history, the company desperately needs a successful Christmas season if it is to regain the confidence of investors, who have pushed its stock down 24% over the past 12 months...
...drafted by the Seibu Lions and turned into a shortstop. In his second year in the minors he came up for a cup of kohee. He figured he would quickly be farmed back out. Instead he became the protégé of Hiroshi Narahara, the Japanese Ozzie Smith...
...DETAINED. HIROSHI MINAMI, 24, a former officer in the Japanese Self-Defense Force; for joining Chechen rebels in their insurrection against Russia; by security authorities in Georgia. Minami, a convert to Islam, was apprehended as he tried to enter Georgia with a group of Chechen guerrillas...