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...Takeaki Matsumoto, the DPJ's policy chair. Much of Abe's current popularity is a legacy from Koizumi, and if the LDP were to have a disastrous result in the upper-house campaign, many would blame its new leader. "Abe's political life could be very short," says Nobuyuki Idei, the ex-chairman of Sony...
...convenes a meeting here of the Young Entrepreneur Organization, an association of 125 businesspeople under 40 who are the founders and CEOs of companies with at least $1 million in annual sales. The group gets together for a lecture from a corporate luminary such as ex-Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei or Matsui Securities CEO Michio Matsui, discussion about the hot business topics of the day, and a round of networking over cocktails at the club's bar. For Fujimoto, this is the new business as usual. "The old Japanese system of socialistic capitalism is no longer applicable to the current...
Howard stringer says that sake is "not an antidote to jet lag," but he's sure going to need something that is. The American citizen, born and raised in Britain, was named CEO of Sony Corp. last week, replacing Nobuyuki Idei, 67, who, at a packed press conference in Tokyo, announced that he was voluntarily stepping down. Stringer, 63, is going to keep offices in both Japan and New York, and will continue to spend what little free time he's likely to have at his homes in New York and Oxfordshire, England. That amounts to a lifestyle that...
...Though he has been running Sony's U.S. operations since 1997, Stringer speaks no Japanese. And Sony's management ranks held a host of oft-mentioned Japanese heirs apparent for Idei's mantle. That Sony should have turned to a foreigner speaks worlds about how troubled the company's prospects have become. But last week's news was about much more than one man and one company. For if you wanted a symbol of Japan's astonishing rise from the ashes and defeat of World War II to its position as the second largest economy on earth-and a place...
...Kaneko, a professor of economics at Keio University in Tokyo. Stringer himself says that approximately 70% of the company's stock is owned by foreigners, and points out that Ryoji Chubachi, appointed to be his president, lived in Alabama and speaks English with a Southern accent. (For that matter, Idei's love for French culture and knowledge of French wines is legendary...