Word: hitachis
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...HITACHI, JAPAN The Mall is Closed For Taira Kamoshida, the founder and the owner of a successful dry-cleaning chain in the small Japanese city of Hitachi (pop. 195,000), the bad news hit like a bolt from the blue. On Sept. 26, Kamoshida was told by his management office that Hitachi's main shopping mall was closing its doors - and one of his dry-cleaning shops located there was instantly out of business. "There was no sign at all of the closing down," says Kamoshida, 63. "On the contrary, my store finally started to break even and was even...
...must have a high-definition TV with an HDMI input, or a DVI input that is HDCP compatible. Don't worry about what it all means, just pull out your TV's manual and wade through the acronyms until you find these. My plasma TV, a two-year-old Hitachi, just made the cut. With a little patience, I was able to get a beautiful picture, but when I switched video sources, the HD DVD player got confused and froze up, requiring me to restart the thing. I can't say that newer HDMI sets will have this problem...
...Because Japanese electronics giants Sharp, Hitachi and Kyocera dominate the relatively small global market for solar cells ($6.5 billion in 2004), you'd expect that sales growth for smaller players might be hard to achieve. But industry executives say their prospects are bright, because of an opportunity that is opening up in the U.S. In January, the California legislature passed a law that earmarks $3 billion to subsidize solar-panel purchases by homeowners over the next 10 years. The goal is to add 3,000 megawatts of solar energy to the state's power grid, which is more than...
...economists greeted as positive but something short of extraordinary, nonetheless prompted Bush to make a short, rallying statement in the White House Rose Garden. Today in Kernersville, N.C., Bush will bring that message to a 15-year-old manufacturing plant jointly operated by John Deere & Co. and Japan's Hitachi...
...Michael Schiffer, a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, endorses that analysis. The future of the alliance, he says, turns on the answer to a fundamental question: what sort of military transformation is Japan really capable of, and in what time frame? For those dreaming of a new depth to the partnership, one that would safeguard the Asian interests of an overstretched U.S., Schiffer offers a sobering response. "For the long term," he says, "the U.S. may have too much vision, and Japan too little, about an increased Japanese role...