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Such changes are happening all over the world, frustrating the best efforts on climate change. Japan shows that to meet even the modest goals of Kyoto, "we might need to do something as extreme as 'no-car day' or 'no-air-conditioning day' once a week," says Koichi Iwama, an economics professor at Wako University who specializes in energy policy. Selling such ideas won't take the kind of miracle you'd pray for in a Kyoto temple, but it won't be easy either...
Young Artists Showcase. PresentsBenjamin Brecher, tenor, with Beth Beeson onFrench horn and Kayo Iwama on pino. IsabellaStewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, Boston. $2for students. Call 734-1359 for more information...
DIED. Kazuo Iwama, 63, president of Sony Corp. for the past six years and a key executive in the growth of the worldwide electronics giant; of cancer; in Tokyo. Iwama joined the company in 1946 and helped lead Sony into mass production of transistorized radios that touched off the Japanese semiconductor industry. Under his guidance, Sony became the first Japanese electronics company to build a color TV manufacturing plant...
...Reingold's split-screen perspective on the U.S. and Japan proved to be invaluable in reporting this week's cover story. Says he: "Since auto imports are the major focus of contention between the two great trading partners now, comparing how things are done Chang, Reingold and Iwama in Tokyo here and in the U.S. has become something of a journalistic preoccupation...
...Correspondents S. Chang and Frank Iwama, working on a cover story with Reingold was just like old times. The three collaborated on three covers during Reingold's first stint in Japan. This time Chang spent two days at the Matsushita Co. in Osaka and visited a Honda manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio. He was struck by how the Japanese cling to their cultural past. Says Chang: "For all its Western facade, Japan remains essentially Eastern." Iwama, who joined the Tokyo bureau in 1949, interviewed Japanese business executives for this week's story. Says he: "They used to poor...