Word: isao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spring Snow, the dreamy and aristocratic hero Kiyoaki Matsugae died a vaporously youthful death. He becomes Isao, the fanatic young political conspirator of Runaway Horses. In The Temple of Dawn, Kiyoaki/Isao is again transformed, this time into Ying Chan, a lovely Thai princess. The witness to all three incarnations is a wonderfully subtle spiritual voyeur named Honda, a rationalist Japanese judge and lawyer. Honda, like a principle of embattled moral intelligence, acts as Mishima's civilized guide through the mysteries of love, death, political tragedy and reincarnation...
...luxury of fiction allowed Mishima the license of idealization difficult to discover in his actual self-destruction. His fictional suicide is Isao lunuma, a right-wing student with an obsessional love of Samurai tradition and a hatred for the 20th century's destruction of imperial values. lunuma enjoys an almost erotic anticipation of the moment when he will solemnly disembowel himself for the Emperor. In the 1930s, he assembles a group of similarly obsessed conspirators to plot the assassinations of Japan's leading industrialists, hoping to precipitate a general uprising against the corruption of Japan's ancient...
...Ichi Kangyo Bank; Akira Harada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Shoji Kambara, Ricoh Co., Ltd.; Kiyoshi Kawashima, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Kaoru Kobayashi, Institute of Business Administration and Management; Kazutoyo Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro Neo, Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha, Ltd.; Saburo Oyama, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.; Kazuo Saitoh, Sharp Corp.; Keizo Saji, Suntory Ltd.; Yutaka Sugi, Nippon...
Replace "the revolution" with the term sound merchandising, and that quotation becomes a guide to success in capitalist retailing. So claims Isao Nakauchi, head of Japan's fastest-growing store chain and an admitted admirer of Mao, even though he himself is a political conservative. By following the Chairman's strategic principles, Nakauchi has built his 14-year-old Daiei, Inc., into a 63-store chain that in 1970 grossed $415 million, second only to the volume of the Mitsukoshi department stores. This year Nakauchi expects to become No. 1 by pushing Daiei's sales...