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...barnstorming buyers ran into two trade barriers of another sort: culture shokku and a lack of aggressive salesmanship by some of the Americans they met. In Atlanta, Keigo Yamada, executive managing director of Ito-Yokado, a chain of discount department stores with an annual sales volume of $1.3 billion, shied away from a meal of grits and complained that he was meeting the wrong people. Yamada wanted American sportswear modified to suit Japanese tastes and sizes but, he says, was told "that they would have to ask their supervisors in New York." A Mitsubishi buyer offered Jose Lopez...
...talents, traits and concept of an ideal mate. Eight courtship counselors, most of them wives of Mitsubishi executives, guide candidates in making final selections. "Mitsubishi boys and girls spend a lot of time and money in search of their future husband or wife," says Hiroyuki Ito, a former Mitsubishi insurance executive who heads the mating effort. "We aim to cut that unnecessary wandering to a minimum...
...represent a persistent tradition in Japan-one recent study estimated that 20% of matches in Tokyo are still put together by parents-but company counselors insist that they exert no pressure on employees to marry their printout partners. Mitsubishi executives do admit that they value such intramural mergers. Says Ito: "When the wife shares the same corporate frame of reference with her husband, she can only understand him more and help achieve for him a higher degree of performance and efficiency as an employee...
Whether in a big city or small town, the country's 69,000 private clinics are remarkably alike. In Tokyo, Dr. Takeshi Ito (not his real name), an internist who calls himself a child specialist, owns and runs a one-room clinic with a cubbyhole dispensary. Ito sees about 60 patients during each long clinic day, visiting a few bedridden patients at home in the afternoon. At night, relaxing with his hi-fi and a bottle of Scotch, Ito wonders aloud whether he can call himself "a true disciple of this noble science of medicine." He provides...
...eight academic high schools will have 80% or higher nonwhite enrollments. Some 35 U.S. cities are setting up or planning magnet schools by building educational parks, large central campuses to which all of a district's pupils would travel, many by bus. John Ito, civil rights adviser to Los Angeles County schools, can list 14 different desegregation techniques, but notes that each requires some additional busing. Says Ito: "A busing moratorium would prevent integration from taking place. There is just no way around that fact...