Word: ikeda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared to understand American irritation over the imbalance in trade between the two countries that has been one main cause of the dollar's tribulations. Ohira intends to continue and even increase support for the greenback (see box). But because Ohira, as chief Cabinet secretary to Premier Hayato Ikeda in 1960, was an architect of Japan's spectacularly successful drive to make Japan an exporting juggernaut, Washington is uncertain about how eager he will be to trim those exports at a time when Japan's domestic economy has turned sluggish...
...scouring the U.S. last week looking for U.S. products to import. So far, the Japanese visitors have spent $1 billion on raw materials plus another billion on finished goods ranging from home furnishings to machine tools to fur coats. To help the U.S. sell more abroad, Delegation Chief Yoshizo Ikeda, the chief of Japan's huge Mitsui trading firm, offered Washington the use of a Japanese ship, which he and other successful exporters use as a floating trade fair...
...government officials to tour the U.S., actively seeking, and signing orders for, more imports. Last week the mission fanned out from San Francisco to a score of cities to talk up a new liberalism in trade. In a flight of wish-it-were-true hyperbole, Delegation Chief Yoshizo Ikeda, president of Mitsui, the giant trading company, told a gathering in Atlanta that his country is "removing import quotas, slashing tariffs and streamlining import procedures in order to make Japan, this year, the least protected market of all the great trading powers, including...
...Masuo Ikeda: Three Portfolois--"Traveller's Joy", "Seven Deadly Sins", and "Venus". Art/Asia Gallery, 49 Palmer St. Cambridge, through June...
...Ikeda's line has a sense of sensual humor like Aubrey Beardsley's. The technique of these etchings is effortless, but full of life. Spring incarnate...