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...raises taxes, the city is closing schools, libraries and nursing homes in a desperate effort to cut costs. Unsurprisingly, many Yubarians are simply leaving town. "We'll be forced to provide the bare minimum social services, while having the highest tax burden that is allowed by law," says Hisashi Hirano, a municipal official. "I worry about Yubari disappearing." Hirano, by the way, is in charge of Yubari's public relations...
...avow that they spurned the Blu-ray consortium's advances, deciding to develop their own HD-DVD technology instead. The proud victor over Sony in setting the standards for the first generation of DVDs in the 1990s, Toshiba is in no mood to concede its lead. Toshiba team leader Hisashi Yamada, a key player in the first DVD war, seems to delight in playing the role of the spoiler yet again in the face of what many at Toshiba perceive as Sony's arrogance. "The way of Sony is very simple," says Yamada. "'Our format is best,' they...
...Toshiba's DVD executives, led by an equally legendary veteran, senior vice president Hisashi Yamada, cheerfully admit that they spurned the Blu-ray consortium's advances and decided to develop their own HD-DVD technology instead. The proud victor over Sony in setting the standards of the first generation of DVDs in the 1990s, Toshiba is unwilling to meekly follow the competition. Yamada seems to delight in playing spoiler in the face of what many at Toshiba perceive as Sony's arrogance. "The way of Sony is very simple," says Yamada. "'Our format is best,' they say. 'You should adopt...
...Besides the prevalence of motorcycles, there appears to be another universal truth underlying Asia's soaring highway death rates: fatalities increase when business is booming. "It's the dark side of economic growth," says Hisashi Ogawa, a regional environmental-health adviser for the WHO. He notes that rates begin to ease only after countries become rich enough to put in place costly measures to moderate the slaughter. Sadly, this means that Asia's statistics are bound to get uglier. India and China, the most populous countries in the world, have exploding middle classes whose members are reaching...
...DIED. HISASHI SHINTO, 92, the first president of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.; in Tokyo. One of Japan's leading industrialists, Shinto was responsible for transforming NTT from a government utility into one of the world's largest privately owned telecommunications companies...